Originally posted by PenPusher I have looked at the Sony E mount range and the Fuji X mount plus Olympus / Panasonic m4/3 and I didn’t want to go down that route because there are too many tempting lenses.
Fuji lenses have great reputation, but also great cost. And the lens catalog of Fuji, or even of M4/3, is nothing like the endless bounty we enjoy in Pentax. As for Olympus. . . I bought an OM-D E-M5 and fell in love with it, and then I fell out with it. It'll be showing up on eBay real soon now.
Quote: Interestingly enough there now appears to be a Pentax to Fuji X adapter which will allow use of the DA lenses without aperture ring but I could not find enough information to evaluate it.
I've looked into that, and honestly it's tempting. I'm not ruling it out sometime in the future. I looked at the Sony A7 in that context as well. Personally, I wouldn't attempt to adapt modern lenses, like the DA series. If you lose most of the modern functions anyhow, then it seems better to adapt "vintage glass" that is manual focus by design, no electronics, and often very cheap to acquire.
However. . . I can use those same lenses on a Pentax and have full aperture control and image stabilization, and I can do it for less money. With that in mind, I've settled on a new Pentax K-S2. It'll be here in a few days, and I'm quite excited for it. They're calling it the smallest weather-sealed DSLR ever, but it'll be my
big camera for those situations where the Q7's ultra-portability isn't needed.
I've also thought about getting a spare Q7 body, but I keep thinking I should wait for the next model. It can't be too far off, right?
Quote: On looking through the Q’s images on this forum I have been surprised at the number of shots taken with the 03 fisheye, which I had thought was in the “toy” group, I shall have to think about that lens again.
It's toy-ish. It's tiny and cheap and. . . not bad, really. It's possible to take some good photos with it. However, if you could compare it with the Samyang fisheye that I got for the OM-D, the difference is like night and day. That's a gem.