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Hi, this is interesting because I use both the canon 350 d with L lenses and a digilux 2( I use medium format for film as well) , I use both cameras commercially and so can really compare the two. The digilux is lovely and really does deliver pictures which easliy rival the 8 mp of my canon and personally I actually prefer the digilux to ther canon even with L glass. You must however be aware of the pitfalls of the digilux.( it does have some) I shoot raw and the 6 second wait on occasions can be irritating, the camera is not as fast in action as the canon(speed of use not the lens speed), you can not go beyond the focal length of th lens and you are limited in the range of iso you can use.
However on the other side the lens on the digilux really squeezes every bit of quality out of the ccd and it is nice and fast, the camera is almost silent in operation and feel and operation of the camera is gorgeous.
If you do not need the speed of operation of the canon and can wait a few seconds after exposure and do not need iso 3200 then I highly recommend the digilux. Otherwise the digilux 3 seems to address a number of these issues and I myself am quite interested in trying one. Also do not forget that if you need some attributes that the digilux does not have then the canon also gives great results with L glass on it but personally I do really love my little digilux, it is a really great camera to always have with you and it is a leica and we all know that leica do what they do best, they nmake excellent optical instruments. Good luck.( by the way, I have regularly printed up to one meter by 70 cm with my digilux so dont worry about mp, on this camera 5 is enough)