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| 5.5 inches | | Package Height:
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| 1.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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 Best camera EVER!Aug 27, 2010
I started searching for a DSLR many months ago. Almost bought the Nikon D5000 but glad I didn't. A friend of ours was visiting from Germany and had the D-Lux 4 and it blew me away. I couldn't believe how he was taking photos at night in low light on the street after dinner with no flash and the pictures were exactly what the naked eye was seeing. He really opened my mind to the idea of the lens being much more important than the number of megapixels you have. After about two weeks of reading reviews on the net and checking the camera out in a local store I took the leap and got one. The pictures are just incredible. It's a step UP in quality and the size is like a standard point and shoot. I couldn't be happier and would recommend this camera to anyone.
OMG be careful with this cameraAug 25, 2010
I shoot for fun.. Which means that I use my Leica D-4 a lot! It's nothing to me to shoot a few hundred pictures and have them mean something. What happened to my Leica D-4 can happen to anyone.
Two weeks ago I was in San Francisco. Covering an event for a magazine while participating in the event. Someone clipped the lens with their elbow. It was not a hard hit, just a people brushing up against each other in a crowd. What happened was the lens literally cracked at the base.
This would have never happened to my m6 TTL. But the D-4 is extremely fragile when the lens is extended. So why am I telling you this? If you own this camera I don't have to tell you how to use it.
Just please, save yourself the $ 400.00 (Yes, from Leica in NJ) to fix it.
I've owned Leica's since I was a kid. lucky me. But this camera really needs to be shored up.
The camera was never dropped or handled rough in any way. It gleams as if right from the factory. Just that little problem about bumping the lens.. hmmm. Please be careful. Thanks,
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 A Solid P&S but no DSLRJul 14, 2010
I owned the D-Lux 4 for about a year and a half. It was my primary camera for that entire period. In full disclosure, the camera that preceded it was the Nikon D90, and the camera that came after was the Canon T2i. In comparison to the D90, the D-Lux 4 was a happy replacement...At first. I was thrilled to be getting such great images from such a tiny device. It was great...At first. I quickly became restless at its limitations. Namely, noisy low-light photographs and the limiting process of control over manual functions like focus, aperture and shutter speed. It was made up for in size and the ability to sneak shots, but even that was soon compromised. Inside of the Supreme store in LA, I was dragged into a discussion about Leicas with the salesperson, still unable to get any shots of the inside of the store, the same for Union LA, except the staff was less friendly. Even the shots I was able to sneak were noisy and no where near professional in their results. Flash forward to today to me and my diminutive T2i and a 50mm prime. The body is small, light and I get the same amount of attention I would the Leica, yet I can get a professional result regardless of the situation and light environment. So, in conclusion, I think buying a camera is largely a personal endeavor that should be about what you need a camera for specifically. As a photographer, you will find that you really don't need much more than simply a camera that gets the job you want done reliably. The Leica D-Lux 4 takes great photographs, but it cannot replace a DSLR, this is something I found out the hard way. I was really looking for a fast, smaller DSLR, and I didn't find it in the D-Lux 4. What I found was slightly more refined P&S. Is it worth the money? Yes, it is an investment. I was able to sell it for more than I paid, but with its limits I probably lost more experience and work than how much I eventually got from selling it. As it stands right now it is the best P&S on paper, but I'd rather have the smallest and quickest P&S and skimp on manual controls, rather than the d-lux 4 just for the sheer portability and true P&S nature. If you're looking at the D-lux 4 as a fast, light, small P&S, or as a DSLR replacement, you're going to be disappointed. It's somewhere in between and it doesn't win on either front.
1 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 No viewfinder problemJul 14, 2010
I have played many times with this camera in my local store. The one thing that has stopped me buying it is that it has no integrated viewfinder. This is a real problem if you use reading glasses because you can not whip it out for a quick shot-- isn't that part of the attraction of a good point and shoot? To do that you have to put on your reading glasses to see the screen clearly, by then the desired shot has passed ! There is an accessory viewfinder but it is big and clumsy, defeating the 'point and shoot' capability and is only really functional at 24 mm so the zoom portion is excluded. Untill Leica correct this problem, your best option if you wear reading glasses is one of the high Quality Canon compacts.
Bill
4 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Huge Price FluxJun 27, 2010
I read a review last year where this exact camera was priced at $699.00 I'd recommend you look around. Amazon and their vendors like to play games with prices. I question the integrity of this, and I do not buy from people I do not trust.
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