Beautiful minimalist design and the leather (like) bag gives a brilliant retro appearance.
Strong body and metallic buttons gives a good solid touch feeling. Except for the door to the battery and memory card which is a piece of flimsy plastic as well as the open button to it who missed most of the painted color after less then three months.
Image stabilization works pretty well.
Very sharp lens, excellent auto-focus and amazing good pictures in low light conditions.
The 24mm focal in combination with 16:9 format, which gives the room to tall two different stories in a single shoot, is just a fabulous joy. Such a joy that it has changed completely my still and the way I take pictures.
The display has a fantastic resolution but has also the tendency to make red colors as reddish as it is on the Chinese flag. The good think is that on your computer the reds are still reds.
Four customizable positions it is much more that I could hope. Three predefine B&W programs which work fine are more than I expected. Twenty four scene modes to choose from are again more than expected. And all of them, which I have tried so far, are working excellent.
Problems:
Disappointing is the battery lifetime. It might be the price you have to pay for such a large display with such fine resolution.
Bold prices can be OK some times but cheeky prices are bad all the time. And the prices for the accessories are more then cheeky. Keep them Leica! I have bought only third part compatible accessories. An extra battery for almost one tens of the price of ones where Leica is written on, is not quite a bad deal. Is it?
When I paid almost twice as much for the Leica badge then for the Panasonic one, I expected some service in return for my money. Big mistake! Leica is not Lexus who sends free of charge a helicopter in the Canadian mountains to bring you the car keys, which you yourself have locked inside your car. I bought the camera in uk and I got the charger with a British plug, useless when you live in dk. Because the plug has a fusel incorporated in it to prevent damages caused by tension variations (Bravo Leica!) I sent a mail to the Danish importer asking to swap the cables. Due to some software incompatibility probably, the replay I got, it was empty. So I mailed to the German headquarter from which I got a very polite but disappointing refusal. Considering no service what so ever, you charge quite a lot of money just for your red badge Leica.
Strong body and metallic buttons gives a good solid touch feeling. Except for the door to the battery and memory card which is a piece of flimsy plastic as well as the open button to it who missed most of the painted color after less then three months.
Image stabilization works pretty well.
Very sharp lens, excellent auto-focus and amazing good pictures in low light conditions.
The 24mm focal in combination with 16:9 format, which gives the room to tall two different stories in a single shoot, is just a fabulous joy. Such a joy that it has changed completely my still and the way I take pictures.
The display has a fantastic resolution but has also the tendency to make red colors as reddish as it is on the Chinese flag. The good think is that on your computer the reds are still reds.
Four customizable positions it is much more that I could hope. Three predefine B&W programs which work fine are more than I expected. Twenty four scene modes to choose from are again more than expected. And all of them, which I have tried so far, are working excellent.
Problems:
Disappointing is the battery lifetime. It might be the price you have to pay for such a large display with such fine resolution.
Bold prices can be OK some times but cheeky prices are bad all the time. And the prices for the accessories are more then cheeky. Keep them Leica! I have bought only third part compatible accessories. An extra battery for almost one tens of the price of ones where Leica is written on, is not quite a bad deal. Is it?
When I paid almost twice as much for the Leica badge then for the Panasonic one, I expected some service in return for my money. Big mistake! Leica is not Lexus who sends free of charge a helicopter in the Canadian mountains to bring you the car keys, which you yourself have locked inside your car. I bought the camera in uk and I got the charger with a British plug, useless when you live in dk. Because the plug has a fusel incorporated in it to prevent damages caused by tension variations (Bravo Leica!) I sent a mail to the Danish importer asking to swap the cables. Due to some software incompatibility probably, the replay I got, it was empty. So I mailed to the German headquarter from which I got a very polite but disappointing refusal. Considering no service what so ever, you charge quite a lot of money just for your red badge Leica.