Leica D-LUX 5 Camera

£644.00 Leica D-LUX 5 £644.00

John Lewis ref:231305995

The Leica D-Lux 5 features an elegant design and superior optical performance, resutling in images of excellent quality. Simple to use settings allow you to bring out your creative side, whilst its traditional design oozes class. Key features: The D-Lux 5 features a fast Leica Summicron zoom lens with focal-lengths from 24 to 90 mm (35 mm equivalent), and is the perfect camera for a broad spectrum of photgraphic situations: from macro and wide angle architecture to landscape, from reportage to portrait and available-light photography. The newly developed, fast, Leica DC Vario-Summicron 1:2-3.3/5.1-19.2 mm ASPH. zoom lens offers an extremely practical range of focal lengths (24-90 mm-equivalent in 35mm format). Plus, thanks to its extremely fast maximum aperture, the Leica DC Vario-Summicron makes it an ideal camera for low-light photography, such as at dawn or the twilight hours. The D-Lux 5 features a newly designed 1/1.63"-CCD image sensor. Even at the standard resolution of 10.1 megapixels, this contributes to a significant increase in image quality, producing brilliant high-contrast images with natural colour rendition and superb sharpness. It’ll deliver images in all 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 formats as well as 1:1 - a particularly interesting format for creative composition, in both capture and review mode. Offering amazingly simple and intuitive handling and clearly laid out functions, the D-Lux 5 is a breeze to use. Set manual settings quickly and easily using the innovative Clickwheel, located on the back of the camera. It also offers numerous automatic functions for effortless photography that guarantees you perfectly exposed and sharp images by simply pressing the shutter release button. This includes controling the O.I.S. image stabiliser, automatic ISO selection, face recognition, automatic contrast compensation and automatic scene mode. Elegant matt black throughout, with sparse accents in chrome and uncomplicated distinctive lines, it possesses a compellingly purist and simultaneously timeless modern design. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - a professional digital workflow solution, is available as an online download for all registered LEICA D-LUX 5 customers. This package will allow photographers to develop the RAW image files from the CCD sensor of the D-Lux 5 to obtain the best possible image quality