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I've been thinking about buying a second body but I just discover that places like Adorama and B&H are not selling it anymore!
any info about it?
any info about it?
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Strange-plenty in Europe. I doubt that it is discontinued, there is no successor-model announced and it is still normally on the Leica-site. Having said that, there seems to be a price-dump going on. I have seen them as low as 1100 Euro.
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Krasnaya_Zvezda
Guest
There is a thread in the Digital forum at the Leica website that says the D2 is sold out, and no more are to be produced.
http://www.leica-camera.com/discus_e/messages/3/194187.html
http://www.leica-camera.com/discus_e/messages/3/194187.html
kbg32
neo-romanticist
Try finding the Panasonic DMC LC1. Same camera, same lens, but nicer looking in black.
Mackinaw
Think Different
Kit McChesney, a Leica dealer in Colorado reported, that Panasonic only agreed to make Leica a certain amount of Digilux-2 cameras. Once they were sold out, that was it.
Jim Bielecki
Jim Bielecki
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Ah well- glad I've got mine. This just added some hundreds of dollars to the resale value, I guess, which is totally uninteresting as I'm not selling mine 
. I can only say: grab one if you can find one- it's a great camera.
. I can only say: grab one if you can find one- it's a great camera.
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
It is still on Leica's site:
http://www.leica-camera.com/digitalekameras/digilux2/index_e.html
http://www.leica-camera.com/digitalekameras/digilux2/index_e.html
SteveM(PA)
Poser
As long as there is some D2 love going on, here's an inspirational little D2 photo site I like to visit:
http://www.thingsisaw.com/index.php/image/archives/1/
http://www.thingsisaw.com/index.php/image/archives/1/
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Krasnaya_Zvezda
Guest
jaapv said:Ah well- glad I've got mine. This just added some hundreds of dollars to the resale value, I guess, which is totally uninteresting as I'm not selling mine
Someone on the Leica forum also pointed out that this might cause the D2 to become the first "collectible" digital----- don't know about that, but as you said, the resale value might hold better now. Also, like you said, I'm glad I've got mine.
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mad_boy
Guest
Agree with the above.
Great digital camera (for a crazy price).
Gets great shote and great reactions too .
I'l hold on to mine as well
Mad_boy
Great digital camera (for a crazy price).
Gets great shote and great reactions too
.I'l hold on to mine as well
Mad_boy
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Not that crazy. If you would have to pay USD 1500 for a lens of that quality you would find it reasonable. So the camerabody is for free!
gustav[] pEña
gustav[] pEña
the DMC LC1 seems to be sold out too. Anyway, I dont like black cameras.
ywenz
Veteran
Why get this big digicam when you can get a DSLR+good lens for similar price. You'll get better performance out of the DSLR.
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mad_boy
Guest
Why not get a DSLR?
Because to my simple mind they do not make any sense.
Why were DSLR's invented in the first place?
To see the actual crop/frame/final-picture before taking it. That was a great innovation in the old range-finder days. It came at the cost of the noisy and complex mechanisms to move the mirror and the diafram to correct position prior to exposure.
What is the beauty of the P&S digital camera (including the Digilux 2)? the screen on the back shows the crop/frame/final picture. Hence most people using these camera's look at the screen. Additional advantage is that one can view the screen from an angle and hence take overhead shots, low shots, candit shots etc.
Hence the combination of sensor and screen makes the whole mirror system (the hart of any SLR) completely obsolete (If I am well informed the DSLR only uses the screen to show the picture post exposure). The only advantage for the moment is that the DSLR's offer the possibility to exchange lenses. (on the other hand, with P&S camera's featuring a 12* leica zoom it covers the range of most lenses people have)
The waiting is now for the first P&S with one of the main bayonetts (pentax, Canon, Nikon etc.), such that it can take the old lenses. Once those P&S bodies arrives the DSLR will be history in my opinion.
Pre-opinioned Mad_boy
Because to my simple mind they do not make any sense.
Why were DSLR's invented in the first place?
To see the actual crop/frame/final-picture before taking it. That was a great innovation in the old range-finder days. It came at the cost of the noisy and complex mechanisms to move the mirror and the diafram to correct position prior to exposure.
What is the beauty of the P&S digital camera (including the Digilux 2)? the screen on the back shows the crop/frame/final picture. Hence most people using these camera's look at the screen. Additional advantage is that one can view the screen from an angle and hence take overhead shots, low shots, candit shots etc.
Hence the combination of sensor and screen makes the whole mirror system (the hart of any SLR) completely obsolete (If I am well informed the DSLR only uses the screen to show the picture post exposure). The only advantage for the moment is that the DSLR's offer the possibility to exchange lenses. (on the other hand, with P&S camera's featuring a 12* leica zoom it covers the range of most lenses people have)
The waiting is now for the first P&S with one of the main bayonetts (pentax, Canon, Nikon etc.), such that it can take the old lenses. Once those P&S bodies arrives the DSLR will be history in my opinion.
Pre-opinioned Mad_boy
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Socke
Guest
Hm. I haven't seen many EVFs, but the Sony and Minolta finders are not to my liking.
ywenz
Veteran
mad_boy said:
Well, as of today, you can't get a large sensor inside a P&S styled digi cam. I like DSLR over the digilux 2 / lx-1 simply for that reason alone.
If the P&S in question offers great image quality in a very compact body then I would buy it to supplement my DSLR workhorse. However, this is not the case with the digilux2 and lx-1.
I agree with you however, that eventually, the SLR design will go extinct and Electronic shutter / live preview will be the law of the land.
sjc
it will be shot on film
The true joys of the D2/LX1 are f-stop, focus, zoom rings on the lens + speed dial on the top plate (where they should be). With the Leica lens the camera resolves like 7-8 megapixels. It is fairly large but pretty light. Most importantly, the pictures it makes have a lovely idiosyncratic character. As always every camera has it's compromises built in (as much as I'm looking forward to it, the digital M will be the same).
gustav[] pEña
gustav[] pEña
I dont know any DSLR with a 28/90 zoon f2 for $1500. And I dont like reflex and I like less canon controls/design.
Is so simple when you got everithing analog.
gustav[]
Is so simple when you got everithing analog.
gustav[]
gustav[] pEña
gustav[] pEña
By the way, I use to own a Digital Rebel I sold it, it doesnt feel like a real camera to me.
MikeL
Go Fish
The fun I had with the LC1 led me to getting a Leica M. I sold the LC1 to pay for it since I couldn't stand the EVF. The lens and the look it gave to photos was impressive, but the camera felt kinda hollow. Still, if it had a higher resolution EVF without the lag, I would have definitely kept it. I rarely shot raw since the jpegs were so good.