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Leica X1 in your hand

Posted by SiE in Sunday, November 08, 2009

Leica X1 in your hand

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Leica X1

More interesting to most people than the new M9, not least because of price, is Leica’s new X1. Think of it as a miniature M-series camera, only with a single, fixed lens.

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Leica M9

The 12.2 megapixel camera isn’t cheap – the list price is $2,200 – but it should do most of what the M9 does. First, that lens. You can’t change it, and it doesn’t zoom, but as most Leica-M users stick to a 35mm lens anyway, the Elmarit 24mm f/2.8 Ashperical should do the trick. The math nerds will have noticed that 35 divided by 24 is 1.46. This betrays the X1’s huge sensor. It is bigger than the micro four thirds sensors, and essentially puts a DSLR-sized (APS-C) chip into a compact camera

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