The Leica D-LUX 2 digital camera - have fun Panasonic's Lumix DMC-LX1 (on which embodied is based) - is notable being its benediction of a CCD imager with a 16:9 angle ratio, rather than the more prosaic 4:3 and 3:2 angle ratio imagers found in most other digital cameras.

Of course, position 4:3 or 3:2 cameras trust neatly produce their outturn to bring about a single attribute relativity (discarding some of the view data in the process), the D-LUX 2 can do likewise, offering up 4:3 or 3:2 images from its 16:9 imager. That's not ideal on a regular basis however, because you're paying for real estate on your camera sensor that you aren't using. If you're regularly shooting 16:9 images with a 4:3 camera, 25% of your image data is being discarded. With a 16:9 sensor (all other things being equal), your camera could have been shooting images at a higher burst speed / depth since there would be less data to transfer from the sensor, and you could have achieved better battery life since the power-hungry sensor would have been active for a shorter period.

For these reasons, this could stage a reasonably exquisite camera whereas anybody drawn sway shooting 16:9 images - over example, anybody who views their images strikingly recurrently on a beside oneself definition television. If you often switch back and forth between aspect ratios depending on your planned output method, however, you may want to consider which aspect ratios you're planning to use the most often. When cropping from 16:9 to 3:2 you lose 15% of your image data, though, versus 11% when going from 4:3 to 3:2 - meaning that less sensor area is wasted using a 4:3 camera to shoot 3:2 images. If you regularly shoot images for all three formats, the 3:2 sensors is going to be your best bet, simply because overall you'll be discarding the least data.

Other than the inviting greater of angle dependency being the sensor, the Leica D-LUX 2 is also notable thanks to its aflame benchmark of eight mega pixels, big and high resolution 2.5" 207k pixel LCD display, and LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT 4x optical zoom lens. The camera offers a good range of automatic and manual controls, as well as both TIFF and RAW uncompressed formats, and stores images on Secure Digital cards. A slightly larger than average 32MB SD card in the product bundle, although this will still need supplementing immediately given the likely file size of an 8 mega pixel JPEG image, let alone the TIFF or RAW images.