Digital Camera Reviews

The fresh Pentax Q camera uses mirrorless technology to amalgamate the changeable lens adequacy of DSLRs with the lightweight, bunched architecture of point-and-shoot cameras. It is baby abundant to fit in the approach of your duke but has complete breach and bang control, RAW and JPEG processing.

The changeable lens arrangement includes a accepted prime, zoom, fish-eye and altered “toy” avant-garde and telephoto lenses. The Q has a 12.4 megapixel sensor with an avant-garde backlit architecture and captures HD video at abounding 1080p resolution.

It has a cardinal of altered modes that let you administer furnishings to your photographs like best color, balmy achromatize and adventurous monochrome. You can save your best acclimated camera settings, filters and custom modes, and the customizable quick punch makes it easier to booty photos in your admired style. The Pentax Q additionally has a 5 frames per additional connected cutting mode, 3 inch LCD monitor, congenital pop-up flash, bokeh ascendancy filter, and HDMI port. The aboriginal and lightest changeable lens camera in the apple is accessible now for $799.95.

Most of the changeable lens cameras we’ve apparent to date assume to chase a accepted mold: they accept analogously sized bodies, commensurable designs and either an APS-C or Micro Four Thirds sensor at the core. But recently, some manufacturers — namely, Nikon and Pentax — accept amorphous shrinking camera bodies in an attack to accomplish them alike added ambrosial to point-and-shoot users. The result: a smaller, lighter, added fashionable ILC — that additionally happens to accept an itsy bitsy angel sensor. Sensor size, not megapixel rating, translates anon to angel quality, but additionally lens and anatomy size, so you can either accept an abundantly baby anatomy with an abundantly baby sensor, or a beyond anatomy with a beyond sensor. Are you accommodating to pay a exceptional for the “world’s smallest” changeable lens camera, alike if it has the aforementioned admeasurement sensor acclimated in abounding point-and-shoot cams accessible for a atom of the cost? Pentax seems to anticipate that you are — to the tune of $800.