PROS: Great image quality...Unsurpassed build...Full manual control...Good flash....CONS: How much...Poor electronic viewfinder...Hefty....Time to don your beret, buy a pack of 20 Gauloises, walk around Paris taking candid snaps of homeless artistes and chomp on raw garlic...Aside from a little purple fringing, image quality from the five-megapixel sensor is as exceptional as you'd hope......
"The bottom line is that although this camera's sensor has "only" 5Mp, it produces images that would do credit to a top- of-the-line 10Mp camera..."
"But I should also add, I take very good care of my equipment and do not submit any of it to harsh conditions without protection (in bag, or with some protective cover in the rain, etc..."
"The images need very little "tweaking" in photoshop (and only those recommended..."
Beautiful mechanical focus, zoom, aperture, and shutter-speed controls; high-quality magnesium body; fast lens with sensible zoom range; ingenious tiltable...Relatively low resolution for an enthusiast model; big and heavy; long raw-format shot-to-shot time;...Enter Leica and its 5-megapixel, 3.2X zoom Digilux 2, which boasts all of those Stone Age controls...That said, the Digilux...
And then comes the triple take when they raise the Digilux 2 to eye level, because this is not your Uncle Bertholdt’s rangefinder—it’s an electronic-viewfinder digicam...The new Digilux 2 ($1,850 street) indeed looks as if the controls from a classic mechanical camera were grafted onto it: rotary shutter-speed dial, plus lens rings...
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... Leica's beautifully crafted 5-megapixel Digilux 2: Despite ... With an estimated street price of $1850, the LeicaDigilux 2 isn't designed for bargain hunters. ...