Leica’s C-LUX 2: 7.2 Megapixels in Your Pocket
- March 8th, 2007
- 3 Comments
Leica, the camera company you’ve never heard of, will release the C-LUX 2 this May. The 7.2-megapixel point-and-shoot has a 2.5-inch LCD and a 3.6x optical zoom, which isn’t bad at all. It also maintains the familiar Leica styling, which basically means it looks very metal-y. The only other thing worth mentioning is that Leica will implement intelligent ISO exposure control. All that means in English is that you should see an improvement in low light photography and taking pictures of sporting events and other fast, um, events.
Product Page [Leica via Tech Digest]
Johnnyh (Who am I?)
1 year ago
the camera company you’ve never heard of… if you suck
Mexxpj
1 year ago
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steve (Who am I?)
1 month ago
Never heard of Leica!?! You must be under 35 years of age and/or you don’t have a grandfather that spent any time traveling in Europe. Leica in Germany is one of the most well known camera and lens makers from the pre-digital era. Unfortunately they are dying a slow death nowadays with the switch to digital. Leica formed an alliance with Panasonic some years back and licenses their name for use on modern digital lenses in return for Panasonic OEM’ing their digital cameras. If you see a Leica brand digital camera like the C-LUX 2 then check Panasonic’s Lumix line for the exact same camera in a silver colored body for hundreds of dollars less. You’ll notice all the Lumix cameras feature a Leica lens, at least in name, it’s not the quality of Leica lenses made for Leica’s new M8 digital camera. This is in the same vane as Sony digital cameras with Carl Zeiss lenses, another famous lens maker from the pre-digital era.