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Luminous Landscape have published the first in a 3-part review of the Leica Digilux 2, written by contributor Sean Reid and photographer Ben Lifson.

“For reasons I’ll describe in more detail in the full review, the camera gives its best performance when capturing in RAW mode. In JPEG mode, at higher ISO settings, the camera uses smoothing to clean up noise at the expense of detail a process that partially defeats the sharpness its excellent lens provides. Noise reduction, if desired at all, could more effectively be done by the photographer using a good tool like Neat Image or Noise Ninja. Based on what I see in prints from an Epson 2200, I think that I would rarely use any luminance noise reduction on files from the Digilux 2, even at ISO 400.”

Website: Luminous Landscape - Leica Digilux 2 Review

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