I was pleased to see that my Sigma 10-20mm appeared not to vignette after about 15mm! Should be getting my shots back soon to confirm.

The 18-55 seemed OK after about 24mm.

My Tamron 17-50 vignettes with excatly the same image circle at any focal length

The exposure is quite hard on the eyes, but that does convey the sense of heat and light quite effectively. I like the way the red rim of his eye is picked out.

Pentax and Tokina's relationship may well continue... I think they were working together on lenses before Hoya bought Pentax. It would be good if Tokina produced some of their own lenses and provided them in K mount - but without Pentax's involvement, would they be as good?

"What errant nonsense, seals are perfectly harmless. You must be suffering from Pinnipedophobia"

G certainly knows how to press people's buttons

Oh I want one don't get me wrong! (That doesn't mean I could justify getting one though :winkIf the price was closer to a high-end compact sort of price I would probably be tempted.

The last two illustrate the benefits of RAW as well as I have seen. Too often it's framed just as an IQ issue, but this highlights the better malleability of RAW files. You've squeezed even more contrast out of the RAW shot but you haven't got any of the degradation evident in the jpeg.

It's a shame the Q won't deliver the narrow dof shots like the marketing images with the girls holding the camera. I'm a bit underwhelmed by the 'dof filter' images posted on flickr, unfortunately. Other than that, the image quality looks acceptable bearing in mind this is more a compact camera than a NEX substitute.

I think that means he expects the Q to be seen as a novelty / plaything for photographers with a bit of cash... but will not become a leading product. I think I agree with that.

So he expects a 'proper' mirrorless (i.e. larger than M43) sometime soon. I hope he's right. I think I'll pass on the Q unless the price comes down substantially, but I'll be pleased if the better sensor makes its way into Pentax's reasonably priced compacts.

Sony, Canon and Ricoh all have compacts with backlit Cmos sensors, and acceptable results (to my eyes) up to about ISO800. So does the Pentax Q. Better sensors are out there, but Pentax just wacks a CCD in their compacts and sells em cheap.

They're fine at base iso though, as this thread shows. Superb shots.

How do you know they check your tripod? As far as i'm concerned the last I see of my luggage is when it trundles through the little curtains, until it magically reappears on the carousel at my destination. So I've no idea whether they check it or not.