Go Back   Rangefinderforum.com > Non Rangefinder Cameras > CSC : Compact System Cameras - > Other CSC Cameras

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes

Very Small Pentax Q CEVIL Announced
Old 09-29-2011   #1
CameraQuest
Head Bartender
 
CameraQuest is offline
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: over the hills from Malibu
Posts: 3,670
Very Small Pentax Q CEVIL Announced

Yes, another CEVIL camera - and surely more lens adapters to follow!

http://www.highpants.com/technoid/?tag=pentax-q

Apparently the smallest CEVIL to date.

WOW - LUV that flash thingy thing - designed by Rube Goldberg?

Not sure what Darwin would have said about this much diversity.

Stephen
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #2
noimmunity
phound photography
 
noimmunity's Avatar
 
noimmunity is online now
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lyon/Taipei
Age: 50
Posts: 2,359
Interesting to see another new camera without AA filter.
__________________
jon 小強

搬到畫國後免疫系統變得超強,所過的生活宅到不行!

The old adage says: Seeing is believing. To me, that doesn't mean that the world seen is the truth, it means rather that seeing is a field in which the purity of heart is expressed--or not, depending upon whatever happens to cloud that purity at any given moment.

No-immunity Bodies: DP Merrills, Fuji X-Pro1, Leica M-E. Too much dust made me immune to film T_T

my neglected flickr
Flickr
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #3
Tim Gray
Registered User
 
Tim Gray is offline
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,833
Once the pixel density gets high enough, the lack of resolution in a lens acts as an AA filter. For that matter, even if the pixel density was low, if the image is sufficiently blurry from either out of focus or just a crappy lens, you don't need an AA filter.
__________________
flickr
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #4
kzphoto
Registered User
 
kzphoto's Avatar
 
kzphoto is offline
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Bay Area, CA
Posts: 1,103
Haven't these been out for awhile?
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #5
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
I've had mine for about a week with the fixed 47/1.9 lens. So far great fun, more to report after I shoot a bit more. Pictures don't do it justice, incredibly small.

Here's one from my first outing with it.

__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #6
kzphoto
Registered User
 
kzphoto's Avatar
 
kzphoto is offline
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Bay Area, CA
Posts: 1,103
That's right, the FrankenQ!
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #7
Bobbo
Registered User
 
Bobbo's Avatar
 
Bobbo is offline
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: The Southern Tier, NY USA
Age: 27
Posts: 360
Ummm... that link is from the end of June... just sayin'...
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #8
Juan Valdenebro
Truth is beauty
 
Juan Valdenebro's Avatar
 
Juan Valdenebro is offline
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Barcelona and Colombia
Age: 41
Posts: 4,017
Hmmmm... With this lack of really small, new half format film cameras I'd love to buy, those digital miniatures might end up seducing me... That shot looks a lot better than thousands of shots done with the latest aspherical lenses manufactured by a well known company...

Cheers,

Juan
__________________
F i l m means fun!
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #9
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
The announcement was in June, cameras started shipping here about 2 weeks ago
__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #10
FrozenInTime
Registered User
 
FrozenInTime is offline
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Norcal
Posts: 908
Quote:
Originally Posted by kzphoto View Post
That's right, the FrankenQ!


And Kent got some very nice images from it - the field of view and DOF is very minox like. So much so that I'm thinking it might be a better choice than the GRD IV.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #11
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
Quote:
Originally Posted by FrozenInTime View Post
And Kent got some very nice images from it - the field of view and DOF is very minox like. So much so that I'm thinking it might be a better choice than the GRD IV.
Come on now Donald, the GRD IV is a must for you. Don't break with tradition man!!
__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #12
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
OK, which was bigger? Donald's Frankenfinder or the Q? Pretty close really!

__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #13
Tim Gray
Registered User
 
Tim Gray is offline
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,833
Those shots do look pretty good. It's a shame the camera isn't a bit cheaper though. I hate to be one of those that complain about prices, but for $800, I'd be tempted by a Sony NEX or the Ricoh M setup...
__________________
flickr
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #14
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
It is a bit pricey Tim, true.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim Gray View Post
Those shots do look pretty good. It's a shame the camera isn't a bit cheaper though. I hate to be one of those that complain about prices, but for $800, I'd be tempted by a Sony NEX or the Ricoh M setup...
__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #15
FrozenInTime
Registered User
 
FrozenInTime is offline
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Norcal
Posts: 908
Quote:
Originally Posted by kdemas View Post
Come on now Donald, the GRD IV is a must for you. Don't break with tradition man!!
I was a minox 8x11 fan before Ricoh - I would have been right on the Q if only the OVF had been the size of the Ricoh GV-2 ... or built in.

The GRD IV remains on order still a 40mm version would be appreciated.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #16
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
 
Gabriel M.A.'s Avatar
 
Gabriel M.A. is offline
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Paris, Frons
Posts: 9,923
Quote:
Originally Posted by kdemas View Post
I've had mine for about a week with the fixed 47/1.9 lens.
There's a fixed lens version? I thought this was an interchangeable lens camera only.
__________________
Fellow RFF member: I respect your bandwidth by not posting images larger than 800px on the longest side, and by removing image in a quote.
Together we can combat bandwidth waste (and image scrolling).



My Flickr | (one of) My Portfolio
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-29-2011   #17
btgc
Registered User
 
btgc's Avatar
 
btgc is offline
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 3,743
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gabriel M.A. View Post
There's a fixed lens version? I thought this was an interchangeable lens camera only.
Read it as fixed focal length lens. For those who missed train with 43/1.9 Limited ?
__________________
MyFlickr
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #18
jsrockit
Moderator
 
jsrockit is offline
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NYC
Age: 39
Posts: 11,713
How about some color examples...?
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #19
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gabriel M.A. View Post
There's a fixed lens version? I thought this was an interchangeable lens camera only.
Gabriel- I didn't state that as clearly as I could have. Non-zoom, fixed focal length lens, 47mm equivalent FOV
__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #20
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
Quote:
Originally Posted by jsrockit View Post
How about some color examples...?
Sure. Here are a few from that day. Some color, some B&W, some at high ISO in a bar. It was a RFF meetup day so I just shot as we trolled along. I'll pop some more up there shortly.

__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #21
FPjohn
Registered User
 
FPjohn's Avatar
 
FPjohn is offline
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posts: 1,585
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/te...vid-pogue.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/201...f=personaltech
yours
FPJ

Last edited by FPjohn : 09-30-2011 at 16:56.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #22
buzzardkid
packin' light
 
buzzardkid's Avatar
 
buzzardkid is offline
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Assen, The Netherlands
Age: 42
Posts: 6,848
two dead links.

just sayin'!
__________________
Cheers, Johan




Leica II (1932), Elmars 50 & 135, Heliar 50: the nickel kit
Leica II (1942), Minifinder, Canon 28, W-Nikkor 35, Elmar 90: the chrome kit
Ricoh GXR Monochrom

Visit johanniels.com!
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #23
kdemas
ʎlʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝS
 
kdemas's Avatar
 
kdemas is offline
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,146
FPJ,

Those links didn't want to work for me. Might this be one of the articles you were referencing?

Kent

__________________
------------------------------------------------------------
Open Iris. Life, Captured.
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #24
back alley
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ moderator
 
back alley's Avatar
 
back alley is offline
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: canada
Age: 62
Posts: 34,656
i held one today...seems very well built and solid, almost too small for my hands.
__________________
heart soul and a camera
flickr

x-pro1...x-e1...8...14...18...27...35...60
rx100


"learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist"
pablo picasso

...it is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple...
  Reply With Quote

Old 09-30-2011   #25
FPjohn
Registered User
 
FPjohn's Avatar
 
FPjohn is offline
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Posts: 1,585
Quote:
Originally Posted by kdemas View Post
FPJ,

Those links didn't want to work for me. Might this be one of the articles you were referencing?

Kent
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/te...ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/201...f=personaltech

Thanks.

yours
FPJ
  Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 10:58.


vBulletin skin developed by: eXtremepixels
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

All content on this site is Copyright Protected and owned by its respective owner. You may link to content on this site but you may not reproduce any of it in whole or part without written consent from its owner.