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Leica X1 Photos
We were given the opportunity to test a production version of the Leica X1 at the German manufacturer's Mayfair store in the heart of London earlier today, and to share the full-resolution images with you. There are 50 JPEG photos taken indoors and outdoors in our Leica X1 gallery, plus 15 RAW files in the Adobe DNG file format.
The Leica X1 is a new compact camera offering a large 12.2 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, as found in larger DSLR cameras, and a fixed 24mm f/2.8 lens (equivalent to 36mm).
Styled like a baby Leica M9, the X1 features twin control dials on top of its body for setting the shutter speed and aperture, a 2.7 inch LCD screen and an ISO range of 100-3200.
The Leica X1 costs £1,395 camera-only in the UK and there are a range of luxury accessories available on launch, including a large and very bright optical viewfinder that slots into the camera’s hotshoe.
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The Leica X1 enables users to capture RAW and JPEG format files. We've provided some Leica X1 (DNG) samples for you to download (thumbnail images shown below are not 100% representative).
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#1 ian
Goodness, all that money and such awful photos. Blurry, colour fringing, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg… Have Leica never heard the story of the King’s New Clothes? Or perhaps it is simply that people can no longer see decent image quality - what kind of monitors do people have? I could have three or four GOOD cameras for that price.
7:12 pm - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
#2 Dave
Leica has become the Apple of the photography world; People buy their products as expensive status symbols, disregarding the sacrificed features and poor performance.
7:18 pm - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
#3 Hans Benndorf
My 4 year old Nikon D50 with the 18-70 DX lens equals the
image quality of the Leica X1. Who needs such an overpriced
limited fixed lens yuppie machine?
9:47 pm - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
#4 abby
Hmmm it does seem pricey but I still love Leica. The DLUX 4 produces great photos and looks sleek. Sensor is great. Anyway nice job onbest digital camera review
11:23 pm - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
#5 Neil
“People buy their products as expensive status symbols, disregarding the sacrificed features and poor performance.”
Really? When’s the last time you used a mac? I can tell you that is not the experience of many professional photographers, graphic designers and film makers that I work with.
3:10 am - Thursday, March 18, 2010
#6 acekard ds
That’s great, but I’m an actual photographer. To actually take advantage of the video system on a video DSLR, I’d need to shoot video as perfectly as possible. I’d need to invest in a new computer system to handle it, new lights to handle the fact that I’m doing video, etc.
4:02 am - Thursday, March 18, 2010
#7 iedge
I think the mediocre, ordinary, snap-shot-quality pictures is due more to the DPReview photographers’ total lack of motivation to show what any camera can do. All their sample shots for even the best cameras are boring and uninspiring.
I wouldn’t judge a camera based on their pics. Wait till it gets in the hands of photos who actually care.
4:55 am - Thursday, March 18, 2010
#8 Jeanette
Time there was a standard for comparison then. This tester was a bit snap happy.
4:09 pm - Thursday, March 18, 2010
#9 Ole
Don’t judge the camera because of this poor shots. The camera has a superb image quality. The photos are as good as any digital slr. The camera don’t want to mess up with the pro SLR’s, but with any mid range or entry level slr. It’s the only camera on the market that has such image and build quality!! in a compact case. Don’t forget that. The photos here are poor, due to the photographer. Just look at stevehuffphoto.com or a german site: http://www.peterlueck.com/fotografie/leica-x1-·-review-mit-bildern/
This are pro photographers and their photos made with this cam are stunning. There is no difference to a DSLR and of course no one to any compact camera of this size. Greetings
5:54 pm - Thursday, March 18, 2010
#10 Dave
“Really? When’s the last time you used a mac? I can tell you that is not the experience of many professional photographers, graphic designers and film makers that I work with.”
This morning, actually. And I can tell you that dollar-for-dollar, Photoshop & Lightroom run much faster on a PC than on a Mac.
On my home machine the Lightroom library loads almost instantaneously from my 4-disk RAID5 array whereas at work, the same library of pics takes more than 30 seconds to load from the single 7200rpm drive.
Aperture is nice, but I wouldn’t call it a killer application that people should switch to Mac for. Also I prefer Adobe Premiere over FCP for its shear power.
The days when graphic design was done better on a Mac are long gone (almost 2 decades ago). This was when Aldus/Adobe was firmly in the Apple camp - now that Apple & Adobe have had a bit of a falling out, the PC versions are the first to get new features and updates. This could also be because of apple’s single-digit market share compared to PCs.
64-bit Photoshop on my hand-built machine running Win7 is dream.
6:33 pm - Thursday, March 18, 2010
#11 Eleanor Maw
Buy a Nikon D700, fit it with a Nikon 35 f2 prime lens and that will out class the overpriced Leica X1.
5:42 pm - Tuesday, March 23, 2010
#12 jezza
I agree with Dave, all these dreams of Mac’s and Leica’s being something like perfect electronic tools are ideals dragged through from many decades ago when those brands actually were the best.
Competitors have since caught up to and even vastly surpassed those brands with value for money items.
Leica and Apple are overpriced, overtrendy, and totally overrepresented.
Apple themselves are meant to be something cool, and non standard, but their products are insidious, permeating your systems without you wanting them to. Its corporate spyware and for this reason Apple must go… trash your Mac!
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9:50 pm - Tuesday, March 23, 2010
#13 jezza
apple and leica are for poseurs.
10:15 pm - Tuesday, March 23, 2010
#14 Osman Tavilson
LOL, I can tell many of the responses here from people who are not even serious in photography.
Leica X1 might be slow but, the Elmarit lens is enough to justify its price.
Also, keep in mind that any camera will produce great pictures under a great photographer and same is applicable otherwise as well.
if you look at the very first image (pic of the X1) you should be able to tell how much is put into this review.
So, dont bash the camera with only viewing this one page.
1:31 pm - Thursday, April 29, 2010
#15 Ruslan Yarrus
Good news today, Mac gows cheep. I buy mac mini 700$ (2.5hz /4gb ddr3) for my Eizo CG222.The reason i look to mac is after wind7 my own bad expirience, i tried to use Leopard. The mac so small on my table,(please don’t worry about My money i spent).I know there is small windows system,but today i may easy to put Windows on mac and make a choose between this two systems to use.On PC is only Wind.The power of mac enough for my 15mb RAW files from D300 Nikon make. Leica is very expensive for me to try, but i want pocket size full frame or less “big” sensor-like X1. So may be Sigma SD15.. The Oly is very small sensor,Sony and others yet is under competitions. So choice is narrow.Wait for Nikon/Canon EVIL ansver.
2:57 pm - Tuesday, June 1, 2010
#16 Timbuk
And what exactly are you trying to say?
8:57 am - Friday, August 20, 2010
#17 Halpa Hampaiden Valkaisu
I have always had reservations about Leica cameras (but certainly NOT lenses) - since the analog era. Now, in the digital era, I got even more reservations. I owned one Leica (Digilux 2). Gorgeous camera, designed like a conventional one, with excellent f/2.0 lens. Unfortunately, its usability was limited to ISO 100 and 200. Everything above that was just a hurt for eyes.
8:27 pm - Saturday, November 13, 2010
#18 kostas
i start to use for first time win pc 35 years ago with bad very bad experience.
Now i use only mac and feel good without promblems.
I start to use my 1st camera a long time ago with yasica,nikon,canon.rollei.the leica is great .
my dream is to buy leica x1 and then a manual handmade M series Leica.
10:43 am - Monday, February 21, 2011
#19 Ellen
These have to be the worst photos I’ve ever seen—surely not doing Leica a favor. My gosh,don’t quit your day job!
6:21 am - Friday, June 24, 2011
#20 Richard
My little foggy wod collection with Leica X1 on http://leicax1.co/foggy-wood-impressions/
5:47 pm - Friday, August 5, 2011
#21 Dario
world is full of envious people.
7:50 am - Monday, December 5, 2011