picture a day: jun 21

Yesterday I got an adapter to use my Nikon F-mount lenses with the Pentax Q10, which fills the lens range gaps while I wait to buy more Q-mount lenses. So I've been trying out my Nikon lenses with the camera, which looks as ridiculous as you would think. Here's what's the 50 mm lens looks like on the Q10:

In any of these cases, I'm holding the lens and the camera body is coming along for the ride. 😆

Tangential thought: this set up sort of reminds me of this quirky Sony QX10 camera I bought a while back that connects via Wi-Fi to a smartphone which becomes the viewfinder/monitor and controller.

I'd usually hold this contraption via the lens for safety and stability/ergonomics, like I am with the 3rd-party lens and Q10. But I digress!

It's been interesting to play around with my Nikon lenses and the Q10. But, because the sensor on the Q10 is so small, the crop factor is ridiculous, at 5.53x (in 35mm terms), so the Nikon 50 mm lens I used for this picture was like a 276.5 mm lens. I had to back way up to get this framing, and it was hard to maintain focus handheld with no image stabilization. But, I kept at it and was able to capture Pixel's portrait.

I know this sounds ridiculous given the original premise for the Pentax Q, but apparently many people used different lenses with the Pentax Q-series cameras with adapters and took advantage of the extreme crop factor. I guess even though the lens-camera combination looks ridiculous, it's still smaller than these lenses on a regular-sized camera body. At any rate, I'm going to have fun experimenting with this camera!