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They do interchangeable lens bodies but none appear to be DSLR in nature. I understand they also (at some point) did a digital back for their R series DSLR. Of course, if you meant DSLR as "can changes lenses" (as many people do) then the answer is a qualified yes.

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The Digilux-3, R8/R9 fitted with the Digital Module R are the Leica DSLRs sold to date. Their new S2 system was recently announced to ship next year, and an R system digital body is expected soon.

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I am so sorry to not correct spell. Does they have Leica Camera Digital SLR "DSLR".

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Danny Delcambre
 
Seems to be a bit of confusion, here. An SLR (single lens reflex), dating from the good old days of film, is any camera with a viewfinder and an internal mirror positioned so that when you look through the viewfinder the image you see is projected through the camera lens and on to the mirror where it is reflected up to a prism which displays the scene properly oriented in the viewfinder. The viewfinder is always in line with the lens. A rangefinder, on the other hand, has a separate, offset, viewfinder and the image you see is not exactly what the lens will see.

So if your digital camera has a mirror then you have a (D)SLR, otherwise it's just a digital camera and the SLR designation does not apply. The M8 is a rangefinder camera while Leica's V-Lux 1 is an example of a DSLR.

This has all become a little blurry since the advent of digital because with any digital camera you can directly view the image you're shooting on the camera's LCD. This is SLR-like in function but it's not the same and unless the camera has a mirror it's not an SLR.
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LKeithR said:
. . . Leica's V-Lux 1 is an example of a DSLR.
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The V-lux is not a dSLR. It has no mirror, no optical viewfinder and its lens is fixed. As Godfrey has said, Leica's current dSLR is the Digilux 3.
 
The Digilux 3. You can also use Leica Digilux lenses on Olympus and Panasonic DSLRs. The Large format but DSLR sized S2 is due early next year and an R format SLR soon after that.

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  • Vikas
M8, E-3, M6, CLE, D-Lux 4
 
Well, you can tell I'm not a "real" Leica guy, can't you? I don't own either camera but wanted some examples of the two different types so I just went to the DPReview camera database. So the V-Lux, which looks like an SLR, is actually not; and the Digilux, which looks more like a rangefinder, actually has a mirror and is an SLR. Interesting. How does the viewfinder work on the Digilux since it's offset from the centreline of the lens?
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The R8 or R9 with a DMR module and the S2 for sale in 2009.

Don't be fooled by Panny Faux-Leicas.
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LKeithR said:
... How does the viewfinder work on the Digilux since it's
offset from the centreline of the lens?
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The mirror swings sideways, the focusing screen is at the side of the mirror box instead of the top. Instead of a pentaprism to invert-flip the image for right side up, right to left viewing, it's done by a light pipe of mirrors and prisms up the left-hand side of the body.

The viewfinder/shutter subassembly is shared with the Olympus E-330 body. In overall concept, it's quite similar to the reflex viewfinder system of the Olympus Pen F series of half-frame 35mm SLRs which were popular in the late '60s/early '70s.

Godfrey
 
LKeithR said:
...How does the viewfinder work on the Digilux since it's
offset from the centreline of the lens?...
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Here is a cutaway view from Olympus, and some additional module photos from Oly and Panasonic. Olympus first developed and used this system in their famous 1960s half-frame SLR system, the Pen F. They brought it back in ther E-3xx series, and Pansonic / Leica used the Olympus assembly directly in the DMC-L1 / Digilux 3 cameras (note that collaboration is mutual: the Olympus cameras of the recent generations used Panasonic sensors and some electronics).

The great advantages are: lower-profile body, convenient corner viewfinder location (if you use your right eye for viewing). The great disadvantage is: smaller and dimmer viewfinder image compared to a good pentaprism setup (which not all competing SLRs do well either).

Olympus E-330 diagram:



Olympus E-330 component photo:



Panasonic DMC-L1 / Leica Digilux 3 component photo:



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Pay a license for the red dot does not a Leica make.

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'No matter how capable it may be, any camera you have to hold out in front of you like a tourist is not cool.'
Dean Forbes
 
And what is wrong with it? Is it not correct?

If you dislike Leica's so much why are you reading this forum?

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Stovall said:
And what is wrong with it? Is it not correct?
If you dislike Leica's so much why are you reading this forum?
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It's a Leica because it says "Leica" on the faceplate, and because Leica sells it and services it. Period. Any other interpretation of what constitutes a Leica is brand bigotry and presumption, elitist snobbery.

I have a great deal of fondness for Leica products, all of them. I've owned many of them over the years and enjoy most of the discussion on this forum. That's why I read this forum.

What I don't enjoy, on any forum, is the kind of presumptuous brand bigotry that you insist on promulgating.

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Don't you worry my friend! With all the new dlux4 owners, this forum is going to be flooded by "panasonic-owners"! :))

Then, this dear John has to ask for a new forum, made especially for him; and maybe for one or two more people who are not even photographers! :)))
Louis
 
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