very much leaning in to the artifacts that retinex and local contrast boosting can create. To Heighten The Fear.

there was one really close lightning strike
(at some point do i stop calling this q lomo and accept that this is the way i like to shoot the Q now? eh. it does still describe the aesthetic well, i'll probably keep doing it, even acknowledging the redundancy of it.)

I honestly have no idea what this is a photo of or why there is an intense blue glow in the air, taken march 2024.

i thought i uploaded these here yesterday but instead i shared them everywhere else lol

3.1MP digicam with a prime lens, no focus, full auto, exposure comp -1.5 to +1.5, jpg and movie only, the buttons double press half the time, flash, and a tunnel viewfinder that is wayyyy wider than what you actually get.
a good candidate for opening up and forcing a new lens onto the front. the metadata reports it as a 9.7mm focal length so im guessing this is like a ~5x crop factor sensor so it's gotta be something wide angle.. but if i were to get any small wide angle lenses i'd be throwing them onto the pentax q lol. i'll test out its video capabilities later, hoping it's particularly crunchymushy.

yet-to-be-edited shots from the 995

oops tif doesnt embed. (not surprised)

that's the weird thing about shooting raw, picking up these shots i initially tossed away cuz i couldn't figure them out (or, alternatively, im desperate enough for photographic things to do that im now picking thru year old trashed shots, glass half full or half empty view for one or the other)

same deal