A Great Little Eight Megapixels
Leica D-Lux 2 by Leica Camera
By Karen Curran
11 Sep 2007
My Precious is a less than 22 grams, with battery, card and strap, gem of an 8 megapixel digital camera. My Precious is my Leica D-Lux 2, powerpacked with features , great glass and a pleasure to use.
Having been educated in the old school, I still like having the option of being able to control the aperture and the shutter speed. My preference is for aperture priority. When the shutter speed gets to slow for even the Image Stabilizer, I have the option of choosing a higher ISO, and still maintaining my aperture which is usually set for F/8. The D-Lux 2 also has metered manual and exposure compensation. These come in handy when I choose to expose for asthetics rather than what the camera tells me is the correct exposure. For example: an orange flower with yellow in it. By manually controlling the exposure, I can avoid a deep orange flower all over and obtain the orange and the yellow. The camera has normal autofocus, macro AF and manual focus. The D-Lux 2 has three aspect ratios, 16:9, 3:2 and 4:3. I usually use the 16:9 because it uses all 8 megapixels. This little gem also has three metering modes: multiple, center weighted and spot.
The D-Lux 2 does not have a traditional viewfinder. Initially I was concerned with using the LCD screen in bright sunlight, however Leica has done such a fine job with the screen that bright light almost never interferes with your ability to compose a scene on the screen.
The D-Lux 2 is the last of the series to offer TIFF format, as well as JPEG and RAW.
Most of what I use the D-Lux 2 for are abstracts and flowers. It fits into a small camera bag, with charger, spare batteries and a spare card. One of the reasons that this camera is My Precious is that it is almost always with me and ready to capture my vision.
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