07-17-2002, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Leica Digilux 1
http://www.leica-camera.com/digitalekameras/digilux1/index_e.html
Like Jason, I'm a big fan of digital photography. For a year or so, I've owned a Canon Digital Ixus (Elph) 300, and was very happy to use it as a point and shoot camera. It got me hooked on digital photography, and I wanted something that could replace my aging SLR (Minolta X-700) as well. For a long time I was indecisive whether to go for a digital SLR, or start with an "intermediate" camera, like the Canon G2 or Nikon 995 / 5000. I was almost certain to go Canon G2 (in fact, I advised Jason to get one before he went to Cancun), until I found out about the Leica Digilux 1.
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As I've been a huge Leica fan for as long as I remembered, I was very interested in this camera. It offers full manual control, a very fast (and easy to use!) manual focus, next to all automatic features you can expect from a digital camera in this range. Still I was for a long time uncertain whether or not to buy this camera. The reason is that the images that were available on the web suffered from excessive noise / posterization especially in out of focus objects. Follow the discussion on Other Digicams Forum at DPReview.com and you'll know what I mean.
In the end I decided to not trust the judgement of all the digital photography experts out there, nor the Leica lovers on the Digital Forum on the Leica site, but just my own experience. That's why I waited until I could handle a Digilux 1 myself, and could find out if it was "the one for me". I loved the look and feel of the camera, and was pretty pleased with the pictures it took. I did see the noise, but only on full screen viewing. On my 1024x768 screen they looked great, and every print (both A6 and A4) looked fabulous. So yes, this was "the one for me". I've used the camera extensively during my last holidays, and was very happy with it. In a reply to this post, I'll post some pictures I made (resized to 25% of the original size, no other digital manipulating).
For those of you who want to share my passion, you can get a Leica Digilux Pocket PC 2002 theme I created here. Have fun!
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