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| Brand: Leica
Category: Photography
Buy New: $1,090.00
as of 3/21/2010 20:06 MST details
New (2) Used (1) from $800.00
Seller: BuyAccessories
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 43547
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Optical Zoom: 4
Display Size: 2.8
Maximum Focal Length: 25.2
Minimum Focal Length: 6.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 4.2 x 2.3 x 1
MPN: 18308
Model: 18308
UPC: 411378015525
EAN: 0799429183080
ASIN: B000J6FTVA
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 15
 Camera August 29, 2007
Debbie A. Thomas (Arlington, Va. United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This camera is very simple to understand. I travel to out of the way,beautiful places and want to have the memory of these places easily recorded
 Very nice, but not perfect. July 17, 2007
Diavolino
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I purchased a silver one a few weeks ago, and have taken it to a few trips and events and now have the following comments:
1) It is very small and light. This thing really is a point-and-shoot. The good news is that it's more portable than I expected, though one should not purchase this camera expecting it to feel hefty like an M3.
2) It's very pretty, and the fit and finish are of a high standard.
3) The lens is a thing of beauty to behold in all its multi-coated splendor (if you're into that sort of thing). The lens cap feels cheap.
4) Images taken in the near macro to about 30 ft. range are very sharp, clear, contrasty, and beautiful. They are so good, in fact, that you could easily convince someone that they were taken with a hefty SLR system camera rather than a pocket-sized one.
5) Long shots (landscapes, etc.), seem a little bit soft, and this disappointed me a bit, though when I compared it to my Nikon Coolpix S2, it was actually sharper. I will need to perform more tests at infinity focus.
6) The flash is not very powerful and does not have much "reach." This is problematic indoors if your subject is more than 8-10 feet away.
7) The display is gorgeous, and puts my other camera's display to shame.
8) The manual controls are good, and there really is an astonishing degree of manual control for a pocket-sized machine.
9) The lens is a bit soft when wide open, and while this could be nice for portraits and such, if you want to sharpen things up you can use aperture priority and a tripod, and then they're beautiful.
10) One of the strengths of this camera is its large glass and fairly fast lens (for this camera class), and its ability to capture really nice images indoors in available light, though you need a steady subject and either tripod or to rest it on a solid surface to get the most out of it.
An almost perfect point-and shoot camera June 24, 2007
W. Saumweber (Northern California, USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I bought the camera because of the many manual overrides/controls it offers; also because it is the only one in the 10MP-class featuring the RAW image format. The camera indeed performs as the manufacturer promises. With one exception: the RAW output is awkward and surprisingly noisy (not what I am used to with my Nikons). The RAW images the camera produces take up 20MB each (instead of ~10MB in the Nikons) and are in most cases not worth the amount of storage space they take up. The two JPEG options (especially the hi-res one) produce much better, less noisy results using 80% less memory and in 1/3 of the time to process.
Overall: Yes, I love it.
After 7 months (and about 1500 images) I have to say I still love it but the unusual noisiness (visibility of pixels) and the lack of sharpness in all image settings has started to annoy me. To produce a high quality image for a large print you need to work even the RAW image extensibly in Photoshop and Noise Ninja before it reaches the quality you get from 10 megapixel-SLRs. Because of that I purchased a Canon Powershot G9 - which looks less chic and weighs more - but delivers exactly what I was looking for.
There's something about a Leica..., June 7, 2007
R. H Stutch (NYC, NY United States)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a real camera. Not a toy. While you can certainly use it right out of the box, this is a deep camera that is very open to the creative and demanding user.
I first saw this camera while killing time in an Admrials Lounge. As it had just been released, I had never seen one so I had to ask. Turns out the owner was a professional photographer and taking it to Thailand for magazine work. He said it does everything his very Pro Canon can do except for very low lighting situations, like a shot lighted by a single candle. His praise and excitement is what got me thinking about buying one.
Sure you can get the "same" camera in a Panasonic version for $200 less - but no thank you, I was raised with a Leica SLR. I want that red dot. I want that solid German feel in my hands. I want that quality.
And what makes this sexy piece of chrome so superior? Picture quality and the flexibility of the camera. Ergonomically many of the controls are right there in your fingertips, tangible hardware. And when you need a menu item it is easy and quick to access.
And the lens. The legendary Leica lens. The pictures look incredible. Crisp clear vibrant. And shooting in RAW mode allows incredible resolution for post-Photoshopabilty.
So while shooting you have flexibility and one great looking accessory. Afterwards you have some great quality shots to fake what a great photographer you are! (And if you really are that good then you will certainly sell more photos).
Be sure to read the manual.
The Leica D-Lux 3 May 16, 2007
zigzagzilla (San Francisco, CA United States)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this item at a brick and mortar store--immediate gratification at the same price. The camera is a beautifully minimalist housing for the high-quality lens, which made opting to pay the extra one to two hundred dollars over the higher-end WorstLie (BestBuy) offerings a no-brainer. I have been pleased with the ease of use--at present I have only used the manual settings in a limited way, but the auto-focus auto-exposure systems work very well, and the ability to set the aspect ratios is proving to work out very well for the various uses, creative and/or practical that I put this camera through.
The downsides are the high cost of peripheral items. The camera does not include a power cable, and the USB does not power the apparatus. Batteries are expensive to replace, and a case runs from $90 to upwards of $300--when in stock at all.
This is certainly a good choice for the upper-end consumer-level material, but the lack of US marketing focus, makes Leica a brand to be pursued, rather than simply "opted-for."
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