The zooms and prime normal lenses have leaf shutters (with built-in neutral density filters) and sync with flash up to 1/2000 of a second.

With the 5.6× crop factor, a 100mm macro lens (for example) results in a 35mm equivalent field of view (FOV) of a 560mm telephoto.

This means that in some applications the small Pentax Q sensor offers an advantage over larger formats.

[2] The Pentax Q has a wide range of digital effects and controls including high dynamic range (HDR), multiple scene modes, and a bokeh function which, when activated, can enable a pseudo shallow-focus effect.

The Q7 and Q-S1 models have a larger sensor size (1/1.7 inches) resulting in a crop factor of 4.6×.