Leica Digilux Zoom review

[Unknown user 32959]

This is camera is now discontinued, however I am sure is not because of its lack of goodness, but b/c of the speed of digital market in to build and sell new cameras. Leica Digilux Zoom is a superb 1.31 Megapixels camera (1280 x 1024 true pixels). Natural Colours, wonderful manual White Balance, perfect Sharpness, manual Compensation settings, Flash little weak but its brightness can be manually adjusted, Continuous shooting at 640 x 480 up to 9 shots... In manual mode you can review your shot and keep it or not instantly after done. Best thing, the camera is precious and small (metal build, automatic lens cover), you love carry it with you everywhere and not missing a good photo. Flash 5 modes including slow for night subjects is excellent. Smart Media Floppy Disk Adapter is a joy: easy and wireless downloads. Besides, there's a DC INput of 5V to save battery indoors or downloading through software. Long life battery and charger: very good.

Problems:

No problems, just lacking manual aperture to get different depth field options. You can not know/choose what manual Compensation is setting : whether shutter speed, or # aperture, or both. So, lacking manual shutter speed. Zoom is good (optical x 3, plus digital x 2), but macro is only from 25 cms. You can see your shots in a TV set, but it is missing a rotate feature for vertical shots.