Pentax Q7 Mirrorless Digital Camera with 5-15mm (27.5-83.0mm 35mm equiv) & 15-45mm (83-249mm 35mm equiv) Lenses - Silver

2015-04-13T21:00:00

I bring this camera and all three lenses (I bought the prime "normal" too) in an insert in my bag. I take it everywhere instead of a point and shoot. The rig is far more versatile and the pictures way better quality than a point and shoot. I keep being surprised -- almost shocked -- at the high quality of the pictures. The colors are bright and true, the focus crisp. There is a hard-to-describe magic to the pictures that is hard to pin down -- a bit unearthly maybe? Whatever it is, I love the pictures I take with this camera. The camera and three lenses weights about the same as the P&S I used to carry everywhere. It does not take the place of a bigger camera and its smallness has limits ... but the range of its capabilities is amazing and gratifying.

MARILYN A.

2015-03-24T21:00:00

It's hard to explain why it's so much fun. The quality of pictures is much better than you would expect from such a small camera. The color balance is super and pictures -- even those taken from a moving car on a bumpy road -- are sharp. The autofocus is snappy, the little gyroscope is a big plus. The lenses range from pretty fast at f2.8, to very fast at f1.8. There is a an unreal quality to the pictures that's hard to explain or pin down. Something about the overall "look" of the pictures. A painterly quality. Subtle. Others have said it and I echo their sentiment: Pentax Q7 puts the fun back into photography. It's small enough to carry everywhere, yet yield much better pictures than an equivalent point and shoot. I have other cameras. I have better cameras. Bigger cameras. But none that are more fun than this wonderful little interchangeable lens rig.

MARILYN A.