Originally posted by mklives I had the Pentax Q and standard prime for a few months. I loved the cuteness factor, the appearance, and the controls. But the image quality just wasn't there. Resolution, colour, detail, and low-light ability were all horrendous.
You are entitled to your opinion, but "
horrendous" and "
joke" are loaded words which you have never gotten around to justifying, despite several questions to be more specific, to provide evidence showing the camera to have been
badly over-matched. When my Canon Rebel unexpectedly died, I used my Q7 as my only camera {including at the ceremony where my youngest daughter received her Masters Degree} until I got around to buying my K-30. In the days of film, I always used my previous camera as my backup, but after having two Rebels die before I bought a replacement, for the past eight years the only backup to my digital camera had been a film camera.
Your Q may have been rejected by you {I hope it found a better home, BTW}, but
my Q7 has earned a place as my secondary camera / backup.
Incidentally, I have told this story before, but I don't think you were around for it: this past December I took my Q7 when my wife and I went to a local Madrigal Dinner. Unfortunately, this year we had second-row seats, but I was able to get some nice pictures anyway. On the way out, I encountered the woman who had been sitting almost directly in front of us {so I was taking pictures around her most of the evening}, and I asked her why she used so much flash, pointing out that the flash washed out the candle-light ambiance which the designers had worked so hard to establish. After she showed me the noisy images her five-year-old Nikon had provided using natural light, I showed her one of the natural light images my Q7 provided; she got very excited and asked me to email images to her - it turned out that the one I had chosen to show her was of her daughter's solo, and it was much better than anything she had been able to achieve. Please note, I am not claiming parity with anyone's
current DSLR, but this is just one example of a time when my Q7 clearly proved itself.
Originally posted by mklives I sold the Pentax Q and bought the Panasonic LX100. It's not much bigger than the Q, and neither are pocketable. I was able to get the following photo with the LX100. I can guarantee you I wouldn't have been able to get a photo anywhere close to this quality with the Q. I don't think Pentax will continue with the Q system.
You need to get larger pockets. I carry my Q7+01 around in my pocket on a regular basis