[alfa75ts]

Just found I had misfiled this one as being taken with a K-x instead of the Q. I guess I'm going to have to do some sorting

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[caliscouser]

Nicely done! That actually looks really good, the 06 a the long end I assume.
Never tried the Q + 06 for birding but I think I will bust it out and have a go.

[barondla]

Just found I had misfiled this one as being taken with a K-x instead of the Q. I guess I'm going to have to do some sorting

Superb results! The Q makes quite a birding rig. What lens were you using?

Thanks for sharing,
barondla

[alfa75ts]

What lens were you using?

As caliscouser said, 06 at the long end. The only thing is that you need a bird that sits still

[pjaszewski]

As caliscouser said, 06 at the long end. The only thing is that you need a bird that sits still

Great shot, Craig!

[kwb]

Just found I had misfiled this one as being taken with a K-x instead of the Q. I guess I'm going to have to do some sorting

Awesome capture, thanks for posting!

[kwb]

Mixture of cloudy, sunny and rainy within 6 miles diameter.

This is a hand-held 10-frame pano stitch with Q7 and 06 lens at 15.2mm, f/3.2, ISO200, 1/1000 sec. I had to use in-lens ND so the brightest part of the sky isn't blown badly.


Rainy mountain by k kwb, on Flickr

[Piotrek K]

Genuine (first) Pentax -Q connected to 1meter telescope. This was through my 102/1000 mm (F10) refractor (ISO 250 1/160, few frames stacked in Sequator). One can see some prominent Moon craters from Plato to Copernicus and Montes Apenninus (the orientation is little off).

[Deesquared]

Genuine (first) Pentax -Q connected to 1meter telescope. This was through my 102/1000 mm (F10) refractor (ISO 250 1/160, few frames stacked in Sequator). One can see some prominent craters from Plato to Copernicus and Montes Apenninus (the orientation is little off).

Wow! That’s amazing!

[kwb]

Genuine (first) Pentax -Q connected to 1meter telescope. This was through my 102/1000 mm (F10) refractor (ISO 250 1/160, few frames stacked in Sequator). One can see some prominent craters from Plato to Copernicus and Montes Apenninus (the orientation is little off).

Congrats Piotrek K, that's a great capture!

[barondla]

Mixture of cloudy, sunny and rainy within 6 miles diameter.

This is a hand-held 10-frame pano stitch with Q7 and 06 lens at 15.2mm, f/3.2, ISO200, 1/1000 sec. I had to use in-lens ND so the brightest part of the sky isn't blown badly.


Rainy mountain by k kwb, on Flickr

Amazing image. 10 shot handheld pano is quite a feat. Well done.

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Genuine (first) Pentax -Q connected to 1meter telescope. This was through my 102/1000 mm (F10) refractor (ISO 250 1/160, few frames stacked in Sequator). One can see some prominent craters from Plato to Copernicus and Montes Apenninus (the orientation is little off).

Fantastic detail. Great job maxing out the original A.

Thanks for sharing,

barondla

[Deesquared]

Just found I had misfiled this one as being taken with a K-x instead of the Q. I guess I'm going to have to do some sorting

Beautiful! Nicely done!

[SpruceBruce]

I took my Pentax Q and the 02 on a charter trip to Bedford, MA. I’m very surprised at what this mighty little 10 year old 1” sensor can produce, especially in the shadows on the hangar shot. The 747 is from the Kingdom of Bahrain in MSP.

[Mikesul]

I took my Pentax Q and the 02 on a charter trip to Bedford, MA. I’m very surprised at what this mighty little 10 year old 1” sensor can produce, especially in the shadows on the hangar shot. The 747 is from the Kingdom of Bahrain in MSP.

I love the Q also but it does not use a 1 inch sensor. Many of us have dreamed that it would someday. The first model used a 1/2.3" image sensor. The Q7 uses a slightly larger 1/1.7" sensor.

[kwb]

Woke up early on Wednesday to shoot Lunar Eclipse with Q7 and Explore Scientific ED80 (480mm F/6). Not the sharpest moon I've shot due to bad seeing, but it was fun!

Each is a stack of 4 to 10-ish? frames. These days I won't bother stacking for the moon unless the seeing is good, but dark moon meant high ISO, without stacking it was just too noisy.


Lunar eclipse, May/26/2021, 3:43-4:27AM by k kwb, on Flickr

Even after considerable PP, if you look at these at 20% scale or larger, you can immediately tell that the condition was bad. Indeed, while shooting these, everything was moving and blurry in the magnified view on the back LCD. (Click on the link, then "Download" icon, then "view all sizes" and finally "original size" to view larger size photo, which is scaled down to ~30%.)

That meant that there was no benefit of higher pixel density of Q7. I could have used the same telescope with my KP and captured about the same details (without blowing highlights in the first three shots!), but that's OK, it's still great for web viewing.