Pentax Q7 review

It's a Q, with a (bit) bigger sensor

Pentax Q7 review
The Pentax Q7 can be ordered in a wide choice of colours

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Here we can see some chromatic aberration occuring – see the area next to the leaves on the trees – which is a shame to see from the kit lens, but doesn't happen too often.

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Shooting at high ISOs reveals a fair amount of image smoothing and loss of detail – if you can, try to keep the sensitivity to 1600 and below.

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In this image, shot at ISO 3200, the overall impression isn't too bad when viewed at a normal web or printing size, but if you examine the full resolution image you can see where detail has been lost.

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Images can appear a little softer than is preferable, which is especially noticeable when shooting close-up images.

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Overall, the kit lens is a reasonable performer, producing fairly sharp images across the frame in most shooting conditions.

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Colours are bright and punchy directly from the camera.

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The camera's metering system generally does a good job of producing accurate exposures.

Digital filters

The Q7 includes a number of different digital filters, as follows:

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No filter

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Toy Camera

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High Contrast

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Shading

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Tone Expansion

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Invert Colour

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Extract Colour

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Unicolor Bold

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Watercolour

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Posterization

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Slim

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Fisheye

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