Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Leica Digilux 3 Review at photographyreview

The latest from Leica's popular Digilux series, the Digilux 3, has been redesigned using the Four Thirds digital SLR standard. It comes with Leica's first image-stabilized, interchangeable zoom lens, the LEICA D VARIO-ELMARIT f/2.8-3.514-50mm ASPH. The Digilux 3 features a 7.5-megapixel LiveMOS sensor with ultrasonic dust protection. The built-in flash can be tilted for bounce-flash use and the camera's processor filters out digital and color noise. Leica's Additional Risk replacement warranty and high-quality construction insure camera reliability and continued manufacturer support.

Right out of the box, the Leica Digilux 3's image quality is terrific. Auto exposure delivers natural color with strong saturation, good skin tones, and good shadow detail with minimal digital noise. White balance has Auto and presets for daylight, cloudy skies, shadow, tungsten, and flash, as well as color temperature settings from 200 to 10000 Kelvin in 31 steps. In-camera image saturation and sharpening are evident in JPEG images. The RAW files yield high resolution, Adobe-standard DNG files which must be converted to a useable file format like TIFF or JPEG, later. Leica supplies a copy of Adobe Elements 4 image editing software for that purpose.

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