Leica announces a premium 5 compact D - Lux

Photokina 2010: Leica announced the 5 D - Lux premium compact camera. Successor of the D - LUX 4 it sports a so similar to the Panasonic LX5, incuding a feature sensor 1/1.63 10Mp "inch, 24-90 mm equiv. lens and point K 460 3.0" LCD. As the LX5 it can save AVCHD Lite 720 p videos, offers several recording via a switch on the lens body proportions and allows you to fully control manual. Registered owners will be able to download a copy of Adobe Lightroom to process DNG camera raw files. Price £ 630, it will be available from October 2010.
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Photokina, Cologne, 21 September 2010: Leica Camera AG announced the LEICA D - LUX 5 - compact high performance with full creative control a digital camera.
Successor of the famous 4 D - LUX, LEICA D - LUX 5 offers a LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON 5.1-19,2 mm f/2 - ASPH 3.3 quick. the lens with a wide range of focal length equivalent to 24 90 mm format 35 mm.Avec its comprehensive features and manual tuning range, the versatile LEICA D - LUX 5 offers a broader photographic options - macro wide-angle architecture and landscape photography news and portrait photography. Video function of 1280 x 720 pixel HD camera format Lite AVCHD memory-record and a full range of optional accessories, opening up a world of photographic opportunities for discerning photographer.
Peter Kruschewski, head of product for digital compact cameras Leica Camera AG, says, "" with its ultra-fast image, simple manipulation treatment and compact shape, the LEICA D - LUX 5 is a truly unique compact camera with caractère.Il system provides users of the infinite possibilities for creative photography and photographers capture the spontaneous, fleeting moments unforgettable image. ""
The LEICA DC VARIO - 1-19, 2 5 mm f/2 SUMMICRON - 3.3 ASPH.lens zoom offers a convenient range of length focale.En addition, its exceptionally fast maximum aperture makes an ideal camera to 'light' photography. If, in difficult lighting conditions or conscious manipulation of depth of field, the LEICA D - LUX 5 is the ideal camera to capture images really distinctive.
Starring a CCD particularly important for a compact camera, 1/1.63 "sensor 5 D - Lux is finely adjusted to produce the highest since the LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON 5.1 mm f/2 - ASPH 3.3.lentille-19,2 quality images." Combined with the electronic device, firmware, it ensures bright contrasting images with sharp and natural color rendering.Contributing to its quality picture, the D - LUX 5 pixels are considerably larger than that of other powder compacts.
5 D - LUX offers images in 4: 3, 3: 2, 16: 9 formats as well as 1: 1, a useful format for the creative composition in two capture and review the mode.3 "LCD monitor camera has a wide viewing angle and a resolution of 460,000 pixels, beautiful pictures in detail and allowing photographers to evaluate images precisely two during composition and after capture."
The LEICA D - LUX 5 is characterised by clear lines and elegant, simple design in a sleek black finish mate.Its formal simplicity, checks clear, intuitive and focuses on the essential features, are typical of all Leica cameras.
Users can enter manual settings quickly and easily by using innovative '5 D - LUX clickwheel' located at the back of the camera offering photo.Il also features automatic photography without effort to ensure the user perfectly exposed and sharp images by pressing simply on the trigger.Automatic stabilizer O.I.S., automatic selection of the ISO, facial recognition, auto contrast compensation, auto scene mode image recording functions.1280 Pixel HD video feature x 720 is started simply by pressing a button at the top of the camera.
Software and accessories
The LEICA D - LUX 5 comes with Adobe ® Photoshop ® Lightroom ® 3 software that allows photographers 'development' of the CCD, RAW image files for the highest quality image and retain full control over the process development applied to their professional image processing images.
A wide range of optional accessories is available for the 5 D - LUX, including an electronic viewfinder LEICA EVF1, which is especially useful when shooting in light extrêmes.Monté on the accessory shoe, it allows you to 'Live view', which allows the photographer to see the object through the lens and evaluate precise .the image composition ' flash LEICA CF 22 unit provides photographers with options for the flash exposure and flash of missing, while a handle ensures a stable and safe to the choice of bags optional caméra.Un manipulation and is also available, ranging from elegant with shoulder strap, a sleek, soft, leather pouch leather case and case never loan with a handle and a case linked to the carrying strap viewfinder camera.
Price and availability
The LEICA D - LUX 5 will be available in the UK from October 2010 for Leica approved, including the Leica shop Mayfair: www.leica-storemayfair.co.uk, Tel: 020 7629 1351.Une complete list of authorized resellers of UK Leica is available at www.leica-camera.co.uk.Le suggested retail of the LEICA D - LUX 5 is £ 630 including the TVA.Accessoires are prices as follows (SRP TTC):
Leica D - Lux EVF1-270 £ 5 EVF
Leica D - Lux 5 ever ready case-135 £
Leica D - Lux 5 Brown-90 £ leather case
Leica D - Lux 5-62 £ soft leather Holster
Leica D - Lux 5-62 £ handle
Leica CF £ 22-225 flash unit

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