Digilux 3

[jdlaing]

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Ditto.

 

I bought the D3 for the analog feeling and controls too.

 

I am not in the Leica demographic pool. I am not semi affluent.

 

I sold pencils on a street corner to afford one. I am old though. I remember "before" digital.

[farnz]

The only thing I didn´t get was the "YMMV"..

Thomas,

 

YMMV literally translated means "Your Mileage May Vary" and refers to specifications issued by American auto manufacturers.

 

You could translate its usage here as:"It may be different for you ..."

 

Pete.

[bohtho]

Aah...ok..I see

 

Leica Digilux 3 - The best* DSLR of its class

 

Smallprint: * Your mileage may vary

 

 

[audidudi]

As my last word on this subject, I should add that, if I really decided an M8 would better serve my needs, I can and would buy one. I certainly don't have any burning desire to spend the sort of money a commitment such as this would require, but I would seriously consider doing so if this were my only option other than the L1/D3.

 

The problem for me, though, is that my preferred format is square and once you crop the M8's 10.3MP 3:2 images into squares, you're left with only 6.8MP. Cropping the L1's 7.4MP images into squares leaves you with 5.5MP, which is approximately 80% of what the M8 delivers. While I realize there's more to image quality than just pixel count, the cost of buying an M8 and just one Leica lens is at least a 400% increase over what I paid for my L1 and as good as I'm sure the resulting images would be, that's a lot more money for what I don't think will be a signifcant increase in image quality. That and the M8 isn't well suited to shooting with longer lenses, something that's a strong suit of the 4/3-standard cameras such as the L1/D3.

 

I bring this up only to make the point that I chose the L1/D3 because of exactly what it is and not as a "poor-man's" substitute for another camera I would have preferred to own but can't afford. Don't tell Panasonic or Leica this, but I suspect I'd have still bought mine even if the price were $3000 or $3500. The fact that I paid only $1299 at Costco's online store was merely a bonus and by no means the deciding factor.

[dugby]

I usually might have added my 2c to this discussion earlier, but I'm tired from a heavy workload, having just had 4 weeks in Tokyo, Paris and London with my D3/L1, and now I'm dealing with multiple issues in my multiple jobs. (how else can I afford travel and Leicas..?)

 

All I can say is, for me, like Jeffery, I too fall into the likely demographics for the D3 market.

I can afford the dollars for

a) M8 plus 3 lens kit ...... but just don't have the bandwidth to address the idiosyncracies associated to it in it's current form, also living in an isolated city in Australia is not great for

after sales service.

 

a larger dSLR...forget it, I won't carry it or use it as much as the relatively smaller D3/L1. I made this mistake with film, going from an OM4 to a larger AF SLR.

 

 

Most importantly 99.9% of my photos are printed less than 10x8, and at these sizes, I have seen how my L1 and D2 images are more acceptable than that of another more expensive, more MP, bigger name brand ( i don't wish to engage in disparagement so won't name them anymore..... If you really want to know, I've posted it at least 3x time in this forum already.....documented in print, proof).

 

What a lot of consumers have difficulty accepting is ....how can such a small company like Leica, with less product features, smaller lenses, smaller MP,... produce better images

 

All I can say is, I'm sorry you miss out on the glow and sparkle that Leica images reward the user with.

[John Maio]

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Most importantly 99.9% of my photos are printed less than 10x8, and at these sizes, I have seen how my L1 and D2 images are more acceptable than that of another more expensive, more MP, bigger name brand

 

 

Dugby,

 

The vast majority of my prints for clients are also 8X10's, but I haven't thought about using my DigiLux-3 until you just mentioned it. Do you always shoot RAW?

[dugby]

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Dugby,

 

The vast majority of my prints for clients are also 8X10's, but I haven't thought about using my DigiLux-3 until you just mentioned it. Do you always shoot RAW?

 

Hi John, 90+ % I use RAW. There are a few occasions where I reverted to JPEG only....but I try to avoid this for obvious reasons.

[audidudi]

90+ % I use RAW. There are a few occasions where I reverted to JPEG only....but I try to avoid this for obvious reasons.

 

This puzzles me, as you've noted in other threads that tweaking the camera's various settings -- only a few of which can have any effect on RAW images (for example, the OIS mode) -- is essential to getting the best quality images from it. Because of this, I have always assumed you were shooting .jpgs, which are very much affected by the in-camera settings and do indeed benefit from some careful tweaking.

 

Could you elaborate further on this, puh-leeze?

[dugby]

Hi Jeffrey.

 

The 'Film 1' customisable settings obviously allow you to vary the settings for JPEGs.

 

A nice feature that Leica / Pana introduced whilst shooting RAW, is that the above settings are applied to the JPEG that gets generated with the RAW shot.

 

Depending on the circumstances, I'll process the RAW, or just print the associated JPEG (yes I know this is laziness and not as good....)

 

 

All of the other settings I referenced in the other recent (yesterday) threads all affect RAW.

 

Hope this better explains ....