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Leica D-Lux 5 in Photokina 2010?

By LR admin | April 24, 2009

43rumors got a tip from Japan that Panasonic may skip the LX4 model and go directly for Lumix LX5 in the third quarter of 2010. In their latest post they even mention the end of 2009 for a potential release. This could mean that we may see a Leica D-Lux 5 in 2010 (Photokina?). Some of the suggested improvements are: OLED screen, auto lens cover, minor lens improvements. If LX5 will be four thirds remains to be seen.

Can the D-Lux 4 be improved? Will that be the last model of the D-Lux series before Leica moves to Four Thirds? Leica’s main concentration this year is on the S2 model and R10 will come right after. Can they pull a brand new 4/3 camera at the same time? It’s all speculations for now.

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Via 43rumors

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7 Comments

  1. Peter Lombardi
    Posted April 24, 2009 at 5:58 pm | Permalink

    lets hope so! cause that sure is a pretty looking camera, especially with that new cosina/voigtlander adapter, wow, i could dust off the old leica, kiev, and voigtlander lenses i have for my, now, mantle piece rangefinders (and without the remorse of buying a canon! ;) joke canon guys, back!! )
    -peter

  2. LR admin
    Posted April 24, 2009 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    Hey Peter, good to hear from you again :)

  3. Peter Lombardi
    Posted April 24, 2009 at 10:51 pm | Permalink

    been a bit crazy as of late, i still read and watch man, ;) i’ll try to post a bit more though, i love this kinda stuff!
    -peter

  4. spence nicholson
    Posted April 25, 2009 at 8:08 pm | Permalink

    If these mockups come to fruition I would sell my DSLR, and get it in a heartbeat. This would be amazing.

  5. Rob. S.
    Posted April 26, 2009 at 4:00 am | Permalink

    Sorry to disappoint, but those images are fakes (as 43rumors.com does say), they’ve been circulating in the dpreview.com forums even before Photokina 2008, made by a forum user with too much time on his hands…

    Panasonic did already announce that there may be top-of-the-line Micro Four Thirds products with the Leica label on them, so that part may still come true, even if no one can say what they will look like. But with Leica fully engaged in finishing their S2 and preparing the new R series at the same time, it is to be expected that a hypothetical D-Lux 5 will become just a Leica branded Panasonic camera, as the D-Lux 3 has been.

    Which in retrospect is a great pity, by the way – had the D-Lux 3 been a real Leica, and had Panasonic’s and Leica’s involvement in Four Thirds been really serious even before Panasonic came up with Micro Four Thirds, then today we might have a substantial second arm of Four Thirds with two or three extremely interesting bodies and a substantial line-up of excellent lenses.

    For a “simple” Leica branded Panasonic Micro Four Thirds body to become a success, I think it would have either to be more competitively priced than the D-Lux 3, or to offer unique features, maybe especially for both existing and prospective Leica enthusiasts. By which I’m thinking of mechanical and electrical compatibility with M series lenses, including support for an automatic diaphragm, to add an open-aperture mode to the usual working-aperture mode which is all we get with adapted lenses until now. Although the electronic viewfinder makes working-aperture mode more practical than it used to be with optical viewfinders, it still remains a kludge which makes both focusing and light metering more difficult and, at smaller apertures, takes the live view feature to its limits, too.

    Cheers,
    Robert

  6. LR admin
    Posted April 26, 2009 at 9:45 am | Permalink

    Thanks Rob – yes, I know those are just designer’s view on the camera – I discussed those before already. When did Panasonic announced that they will have a 4/3 with a Leica label on it? I am not aware of such announcement and I am following this daily. Please prove a link, I may have missed it.
    Thanks!

  7. Rob. S.
    Posted April 26, 2009 at 1:17 pm | Permalink

    Seems I can only find this extremely short hint, published in dpreview’s PMA interview with Panasonic (http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09031901panasonicinterview.asp). dpr: “So when you’re designing a lens now you’re designing it partly optically and partly digitally?” Panasonic: “Yes. Of course we work closely with the lens engineers. But Leica doesn’t allow us to use digital corrections, so that’s why there are no Leica lenses for the Micro G system. But of course, we have a plan with Leica as part of the roadmap.” Which gives no specifics regarding what kind of products there will be, but it suggests both bodies and lenses.