Based on Panasonic's Lumix DMC-L1, the Leica Digilux 3 is the company's boon digital SLR offering, concentric with Olympus' Four Thirds lens impel standard. The Digilux 3 is powerful an racy SLR with a methodical - maybe retro - styling pleasing that the shooting match says is the game of Berlin designer Professor Atcham Haines. It is based around the same 7.5 effective megapixel Live MOS image sensor that first debuted in Olympus' EVOLT E-330 digital SLR, along with the mirror box unit from that camera (which combines a quick-return mirror, viewfinder, and AE sensor).

Olympus' Supersonic Wave Filter is also included, making the Digilux 3 the second non-Olympus branded camera to include the feature which ensures dust will not be bothering L1 users. The Digilux 3 has a shutter pew dial on the blessing of the body; besides a bundled Leica 14-50mm lens offers rings to govern aperture, meeting place and lens zoom. As with the EVOLT E-330 besides DMC-L1, the Digilux 3 offers a Live View craft that allows images to appear as framed using the LCD display, regardless of whether you're focusing automatically or manually. In addition, you obligator ness use the LCD display as a handy confirmation of focus via an enlarged view when focusing manually. The Digilux 3 offers a 2.5" LCD display with 207,000 pixels, at the high end of what's available on digital SLRs at the current time.

One otherwise element worthy of into is that the Digilux 3 offers a Secure Digital classify slot, also is alike with the FAT32 order scheme - fancy that Secure Digital cards larger than 2GB will be able to be supported. In addition, the Leica Digilux 3 supports the new SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) standard, which extends the maximum capacity to a theoretical 32GB (4GB cards being the largest available at the time of this writing, although 8GB cards should be available in the last quarter of 2006), with sustained transfer rates of up to six megabytes per second.

The Digilux 3 has a shooting potential of three frames per support being 6 Raw or unbounded JPEG frames. Focusing uses 3-point deed disparity detection, also ISO consciousness ranges from 100 - 1600. Shutter speeds align from 60 - 1/4000 second, worth bulb exposures to eight minutes. Metering choices are multi, center-weighted or spot, with the multi mode offering 49 segments when using the optical viewfinder, and 256 segments in live view mode. Connectivity includes USB 2.0 High Speed plus NTSC / PAL video.