All good but particularly like that shot of the boats Mike.

Here's a last go from me. I have been using Perfect Layers (now free) for these. Seems to do the same thing as your Photoshop tutorial Shaun but a bit easier for a Photoshop numpty like me. Photo taken while driving through a tunnel in Paris (photography whilst driving is another benefit of the Q).

I would not hesitate at that price.

Dungeness is a weird and wonderful place. Definitely high up on the list of photogenic locations.

I've only taken JPEGs so far with the default sharpening. I'm not sure how much that is but I actually find it a little too much. I'll report back once I've some raw files to play with.

Another from Dungeness:

I think flickr mucks around with the sharpening as well.

I paid £250 with a toy lens thrown in. I don't think there's much to rival it at that price. For me the image quality was important but not crucially so. It is a big bonus really.

Thanks. Those shots were taken with the 47mm equivalent prime lens. Limited dof is perfectly possible, but it depends on how you use it. This was taken at f4 and ISO500 for example, I didn't want it any shallower:




Because of the f1.9 lens (I'm not interested in the zoom or telephoto lengths), the large depth of field and the image stabilisation I will be able to do pretty much everything I want to at lower ISO, so I'm not really bothered about high ISO noise. Plus the vast majority of my output with the Q will be black and white which can take some noise.

I didn't take those RAW. At this stage I'm only really interested in real world results rather than pixel peeping. I have been very pleasantly surprised by the quality so far, I think it will do the job that I want it for.

I find the handling just brilliant except I keep on banging my forehead with it. I'll go into further details another time.

I've been after a go everywhere compact and I figured that the recent Q deal was too good not to try one out. If I didn't like it I could sell it in France for no loss. Here are the first results and no doubt I'll get better results when I shoot RAW. See what you think, if anyone is interested in my opinion of teh Q then please ask. Images are taken in Folkestone and Dungeness:

Most of my supermarket job wages when I was at school ended up here:




Young Gull, Folkestone harbour:




Harbour boat 1:




Harbour boat 2:




Different angle:




Fish market:




Just popped in for a quick one:




Leas lift:




Admirable topiary skills:




Nuclear power station:




Boardwalk:




Fishing Hut:




Wreck:




One For The Family Album:




Two For The Family Album:




Three For The Family Album:

two people own one?

[/quote]I think that's right.

Good point, along with other good points made in this thread. The Q is about a lot more more than just image quality. Whether it is worth the money depends on how it is used, how it fits into one's photography needs. It has characteristics that can be advantagsous or disadvantageous depending on what is needed. I'll start a separate thread on Q image quality now that Q ownership amongst the forum membership has doubled.

Great thread Shaun. Here's an effort from me, a postcard from Dungeness: