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When I look back over my Digilux 2 photos, I fall in love  with that camera all over again. There is certainly something to be said about the Leica photos....and for me...it's the softness of the high

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Street scene is in Dundee Scotland, 8sec exposure. Cottage is Applecross, West Coast, Scotland. Both are straight from camera jpg's with no pp whatsoever.

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“There was a little girl, and she had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was VERY VERY good - and when she was bad, she was HORRID.” - Nursery rhyme

The Leica Digilux 2, and its Panasonic twin, the DMC-LC1, are an interesting exercise in digital camera design and ergonomics - in essence, a throwback to the shape and handling and analog controls of mechanical 35mm cameras from the last half of the 1900s. As an operating tool in the hand, the Digilux 2 is very successful. There are many shooting situations where being able to scale-focus the lens, or set the shutter speed on a dial - even before the camera has been turned on - greatly simplify and speed up operation, compared to the push-here-while-twirling-that-and-watching-the-LCD controls common on most non-SLR digicams. The Leica-designed lens is almost supernatural in its ability to define details and separate tones and colors, and pushes right to the limits of what 5 megapixels can record - a bonus I wasn’t even expecting.

So ideally, I’d start this review with the controls and handling and lens, because they are so distinctive.

But as a reviewer, I have an obligation to point out the worst features of the Digilux first - the HORRIDS. If you get past these and are still interested, then we can have fun with the camera’s good side - which is occasionally amazing.

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Heritage Park Train Station... taken yesterday with my new (to me) Digilux 2.

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Great shot and sepia tones, ramus. Does the Digilux 2 have menu or WB settings somewhere for sepia, or did you create that in a post processing program?

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Street scene is in Dundee Scotland, 8sec exposure. Cottage is Applecross, West Coast, Scotland. Both are straight from camera jpg's with no pp whatsoever.

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Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting these shots!

 

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My fiancée. Converted from RAW using Aperture 3. Spot focused and spot metered at her eye

I just love my D2. And of course, I love my fiancée too!! :D

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Very nice portrait, Carlos.

 

Have you noticed any significant differences or advantages between using the D2 and your LC1, regarding practical use, picture quality, etc.?

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Very nice portrait, Carlos.

 

Have you noticed any significant differences or advantages between using the D2 and your LC1, regarding practical use, picture quality, etc.?

 

Thanks Jim!! I am glad you liked it.

Lately I've been shooting in RAW mode most of the time with both cameras and there is no discernible difference between the two.

Regarding the jpeg, they look pretty similar to my eye, but I have not done extensive testing.

 

In the case of the Digilux 3 and Lumix L1, however, the latter had better jpeg output. I used to have both and even though I liked Leica color better, there was more detail on the L1's jpeg.

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Welcome to the forum, GBR19711!

 

It is good to see you taking your new Digilux 2 out on location. Pleasing though jpegs are straight from camera, I do suggest that you budget just a little time to experiment in Raw mode. It is amazing what extra information can be retrieved in Lightroom or similar. However, for sequence shooting, I fall back on jpeg capture, simply because there is no other option.

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