Introduced as "The world's smallest interchangeable lens system camera…" The Pentax Q system is composed of four bodies and eight lenses: the 01 prime normal, the 02 wide-tele zoom, 03 fish-eye, the 04 "toy" wide angle, the 05 "toy" telephoto, the 06 telephoto zoom, the 07 "mount shield" lens, and the 08 ultra-wide zoom. The zooms and prime normal lenses have leaf shutters and sync with flash up to 1/2000 of a second. The other lenses use the camera's electronic shutter. The 09 macro lens was prototyped but never released. Modern Pentax K mount lenses can be used on the Q with an adapter that has a mechanical shutter. Other adapted lenses use the electronic shutter. The camera's small sensor size means that the Q has a crop factor of 5.6×, as well as a short flange focal distance. With the 5.6× crop factor, a 100mm macro lens results in a 35mm equivalentfield of view of a 560mm telephoto. An additional implication of the 5.6× crop factor and associated optics is that depth of field is increased proportionally for a given aperture setting. This means that in some applications the small Pentax Q sensor offers an advantage over larger formats. This also allows the Pentax Q lenses to be proportionally smaller than lenses designed for larger formats. The short FFD of the Pentax Q enables it to accept manual focus lenses from many manufacturers including Nikon F, Leica M and 39M, Olympus OM, Canon FD, Minolta, M42 screw mount, C-Mount, D-Mount, Pentax K, and Pentax Auto 110. The Pentax Q has a wide range of digital effects and controls including High Dynamic Range, multiple scene modes, and a bokeh function which, when activated, can enable a pseudo shallow focus effect. The camera is equipped with sensor-shift image stabilization technology to improve image quality at slow shutter speeds or when using telephoto lenses. It has a "focus peaking" function as well. Sensor shift and focus peaking functions also work with adapted lenses. The Q7 and Q-S1 models have a larger sensor size resulting in a crop factor of 4.6×.
