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manufacturer Leica has made a name for itself by building incredibly high quality, and often eye-wateringly expensive snappers. The Leica T is the latest addition to its range, launched this week to celebrate Leica’s 100th birthday. And what a celebration; this stylish, mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera is hewn from a solid brick of aluminium, and has a design that makes the majority of rivals look cheap and flimsy. Read on to meet the MacBook Pro of snappers!
manufacturer Leica has made a name for itself by building incredibly high quality, and often eye-wateringly expensive snappers. The Leica T is the latest addition to its range, launched this week to celebrate Leica’s 100th birthday. And what a celebration; this stylish, mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera is hewn from a solid brick of aluminium, and has a design that makes the majority of rivals look cheap and flimsy. Read on to meet the MacBook Pro of snappers!
From the front, the T will be familiar to any Leica fan, with a huge lens dominating affairs, and slightly retro but clean and stylish lines. Switch to the rear of the Leica T, and things get surprisingly modern, with a great mixture of hardware buttons and a huge touchscreen display that should make capturing images a doodle.
While it’s the design and build quality that has us desperately scrabbling down the back of the sofa
for loose change, while pondering the feasibility of sticking family members up on eBay to raise the necessary funds, don’t forget that Leica is also well respected when it comes to photography and image quality itself, and the Leica T looks like a belter.
for loose change, while pondering the feasibility of sticking family members up on eBay to raise the necessary funds, don’t forget that Leica is also well respected when it comes to photography and image quality itself, and the Leica T looks like a belter.
At the heart of the Leica T, there’s a 16-Megapixel Sony APS-C sensor, and integrated Wi-Fi makes it easy to share photographs once you’ve snapped them. Adding to the tech-fest, Leica has also been working on a compatible smartphone app, letting you control the T remotely and offering remote live-view.
So how much for all this shiny aluminium-y goodness? The pre-order price of $1,850 (£1,101), while expensive enough to give anybody pause for thought, may not seem thatcostly when compared to other high-end cameras (or even cameras from Leica’s own range), but that’s before you get round to lenses…
(or even cameras from Leica’s own range), but that’s before you get round to lenses…
Add another $1,750 (£1,042) for one of the T series lenses – with a choice of 18-56mm and 23mm currently available, and things suddenly get very pricey. Even if you’ve got your own collection of Leica M series lenses, you’ll still need to cough up for a mount adapter, in this case $395 (£235); exclusivity and that gorgeous design definitely don’t come cheap!
Would you pay over £2,000 for the Leica T though? If not, what high-end camera would you go for? Leave a comment and let us know.
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