Is the Pentax Q10 worth it in 2023?
Probably not! It really is a crap camera; terrible autofocus, rubbish image quality, poor battery life.
What's the Pentax Q10 like to use?
I actually quite enjoy it.
So there's 2 very different takes on the same camera.
The image quality really is bad; mobiles have better sensors!
And I don't really use the native lenses with autofocus; the Pentax 02 Standard Zoom is possibly the biggest bag of shit I've ever seen, its awful!
The camera is so small that I can put it in my pocket (with a native lens attached) and carry it around no problem. It's a lot more chunky with different lenses adapted though but it's a lot more fun.
I've got loads of old crap M42 mount lenses that I've picked up from charity shops and car boots for a couple of quid. I'm enjoying putting them on different cameras and seeing what I can make with them.
This time it was the Ensinor 28mm.
I really put the camera to test; a golden hour HDR.
I didn't get setup quite on time though (blame the kids) so time was running out fast; it was getting darker and darker by the minute.
The biggest stumbling block for a HDR with the Pentax Q10; there's no exposure bracketing with the self timer.
I only found this out when standing out on a bloody cold riverbank......in the dark!
So the HDR image was always going to be slightly flawed as the images were never going to be exactly the same composition; with each press of the shutter, after changing the shutter speed, the camera will have moved even if only by 1mm left or right on the tripod.
And then there were the muddy, noisy files. I never wanted to create an unrealistic image of perfect highlights and no shadow; the usually over edited kind of HDR. I wanted make a near time image with a little more detail; you could say a dark one.
Would I recommend the Pentax Q10 for HDR?
NO!!!
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