For what I wanted the Q for, it does just fine. My needs in this camera are a small camera. That's all. On a more personal level, I like things that are well built, so the Q hits that button for me. It is DSLR quality in construction. I like the interchangeable lens aspect, it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me if it didn't have interchangeable lenses, and in some regards, a built in lens that didn't stick out so far might be nicer to carry. Being able to adapt a 35mm camera lens to it for extreme super telephoto is a fun, if not necessarily useful feature.
For me, the buttons that the Q hit are build, my love of little gadgets, and interchangeable lenses (ties in with gadgets, I suppose).
For me, the image quality really was quite far down the list, but the IQ of the Q is actually pretty good. The very deep DOF is noticeable, if you like shallow DOF, this is probably not the camera for you, but for my purposes, I don't care. At base ISO, I would put the IQ on par with the K20 and a kit zoom. The larger sensor camera will pull away quite rapidly at higher ISO, the Q is pretty much done by ISO 800.
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