Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium w/ Leather Case
The special limited edition for connoisseurs of excellent design.
The new Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium is the camera for people who wish to capture their inspiration in a particularly stylish way. The limited edition unites quintessence of style with the refined elegance of titanium. But its inner values show that beauty is not only skin deep: its fast Leica DC Vario-Summicron lens (24-90 mm equivalent in 35 mm) ensures excellent imaging quality and covers a wide range of photographic genres, from architecture to available-light photography, while its manual setting options and accessories guarantee photographers even greater creative freedom. This makes the Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium the ideal camera for people who love to discover inspiring moments when exploring the greatest cities in the world.
Key Features
- Leica DC Vario-Summicron 1:2-3.3/5.1-19.2 mm ASPH lens with a zoom range of 24-90 mm
- (35mm equivalent)
- 1/1.63” CCD image sensor with a resolution of 10.1 megapixels
- Low image noise, more precise details and natural color rendition
- Intuitive handling concept with automatic and manual setting options
- Extensive range of accessories
- Leather case
- Packaged with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
- 2-Year Warranty
- Titanium anodized finish, classical, ergonomic and compact
The silky-smooth, titanium-anodized exterior of the D-Lux 5 Titanium clothes a rugged and compact metal body. This lends the camera not only its outstanding resilience, but also ensures that the camera fits the photographer's hand like a glove. The exclusive D-Lux 5 Titanium features precisely the same performance characteristics and technical features as its twin sister, the D-Lux 5, and shares the same unique feature of the Leica D-Lux camera family: within seconds, dedicated accessories transform any D-Lux camera into the heart of a photographic concept with system character. For instance, an optional electronic viewfinder and a detachable flash unit expand every photographer's creative horizons.
The D-Lux 5 Titanium limited-edition package also includes a premium-quality case and carrying strap in Italian full-grain cowhide. The exclusive leather case offers optimum protection and is perfectly matched to the titanium finish of this special-edition camera. A practical magnetic clasp ensures that the D-Lux 5 Titanium is in your hand in a flash to capture inspiring moments and unique pictures.
Super-fast lens
The newly developed, fast, Leica DC Vario-Summicron 1:2-3.3/5.1-19.2 mm ASPH. zoom lens offers an extremely practical range of focal lengths (24-90 mm-equivalent in 35mm format) With it Leica sets another new benchmark in the history of compact camera lenses. Thanks to its extremely fast maximum aperture, the Leica DC Vario-Summicron makes it an ideal camera for "available light" photography e. g. in the dawn or twilight hours and the new lens offers even more creative freedom than its predecessor.
Brilliant image quality
The D-Lux 5 Titanium features a newly designed 1/1.63"-CCD image sensor that is particularly large for a compact camera. Even at the standard resolution of 10.1 megapixels, this contributes to a significant increase in image quality. The results speak for themselves: combined with the camera's electronics and firmware, it guarantees brilliant high-contrast images with natural colour rendition and superb sharpness - just the way you expect them to be from a Leica camera!
The new D-Lux 5 Titanium delivers images in all 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 formats as well as 1:1 a particularly interesting format for creative composition, in both capture and review mode.
Creative freedom
Photography with a Leica camera must be one thing above all - a sheer pleasure. And that is precisely what the Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium offers with its amazingly simple and intuitive handling and clearly laid out functions. For instance, you can set manual settings, quickly and easily, using the D-Lux 5 Titanium's innovative "Clickwheel" located on the back of the camera. Thanks to its manual setting option for subject distance, aperture and shutter speed, the D-Lux 5 Titanium opens up a whole vista of creative opportunities for discerning photographers to take complete control of image characteristics.
it also offers numerous automatic functions for effortless photgraphy that guarantees the user perfectly exposed and sharp images by simply pressing the shutter release ideal for less experienced photographers. The camera's automatic functions can control the O.I.S. image stabiliser, automatic ISO selection, face recognition, automatic contrast compensation and automatic scene mode.
Professional image processing
The Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium is supplied complete with a free copy of the professional image processing software Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®. This software package allows photographers to "develop" the RAW image files from the CCD sensor of the D-Lux 5 Titanium to obtain the best possible image quality. At the same time, photographers maintain complete control over the development process applied to their images. White balance, exposure, sharpness, tonal balance, colour saturation and many other parameters can be modified during post-processing until the result the photographer envisages is achieved.
Video in HD-Quality
Its additional the D Lux 5 Titanium features a 1280 x 720 pixel HD-Video function in memory-saving AVCHD-Lite format which is started simply by pressing a dedicated button on the top of the camera. Autofocus and the entire 3.8x zoom range remain available during recording.
Accessories: Camera with system character.
With its unique range of dedicated accessories, the D-Lux 5 Titanium is transformed in seconds into the basis of a true photographic system. Thanks to an optional electronic viewfinder and detachable flash unit, you can not only expand your photographic options, but also the range of your creative freedom for even greater pleasure. A hand grip can help ensure steady and safe handling whilst a range of bags and cases can ensure your D-Lux 5 Titanium is safely protected but always ready for action.
What's Included:
- Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium camera
- Lens cap
- Leather case
- Battery charger (Leica BC-DC 10)
- Battery (Leica BP-DC 10)
- Carrying strap
- AV cable
- USB cable
- CD with detailed instructions (PDF)
- 2-year warranty