It shoots RAW, the ultimate basis for great digital photos for the best drywall company in Atlanta . It's pretty small for such a rich feature set.

I'm a bit disappointed with the resolution.

Wow! This is cute, very handy, and looks great quality. commercial epoxy flooring

Would love to have this camera.

It is very easy to use this camera. It takes great shots in auto modes and has some good in-built tools to create different shots. It feels like a camera, rather than a toy. The build quality is awesome. | driveway repair

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The out-of-focus renditions may not be as pleasing as the sophisticated programs on the high-end SLRs, but they are certainly acceptable. | Arlington Drywall Contractors

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Picture quality (for a point and shoot) is excellent (11x14s indistinguishable from SLR) Amazing set of features for camera the size of deck of cards Rugged and water-resistant. Highly recommended by Austin jewelry stores!

The out of focus renditions may not be as pleasing as the very sophisticated programs on the high-end SLRs, but certainly acceptable.

Some reviews have stated that the images made with this camera can be soft. I respectfully disagree. If the camera is held properly or used with a tripod at slower shutter speeds, the images are quite sharp. The camera will even indicate if it detects camera shake. https://www.drywallsacramento.com/drywall-repair-installation-sacramento-california.html

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Excellent image quality, excellent user interface, and excellent LCD. This is recommended by one of our concrete contractor.

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EXCEPTIONAL GERMAN QUALITY
The Leica D-LUX3 is a typical "retro styled" looking camera, rather plain at first but as you pick it up it shouts at you "WOW Quality”.

The at first bewildering number of modes and settings soon prove to be fantastic yet it has taken me some time to master them and yet I have had many cameras from a Kodak brownie, a Polaroid instant, 35mm‘s Zenith E, Practica LX3 then one of the most complex world famous press photographers all manual Nikon F2 Photomic camera with many lenses back in 1976! To an Olympus MJU to digital Nikons S210 then a touch screen all auto S4000 and now a D-LUX3! Even taking the same photo 10 times on this beauty shows how many dramatic differences can be seen as you can have 4 automatic modes from beginners everything auto to manual all even focusing a feature usually unheard of on a compact digital, very many auto focusing and metering areas including "spot", 15 popular scene settings etc. etc. etc., the list goes on I particularly like the soft focus portrait one that make my subjects even more beautiful.
Then there are the unique yet truly spectacular 3 picture formats of 16:9 to fill HDTV widescreen, 4:3 ratios for PC screens and classic Leica 3:2 that mimic a 35mm film camera picture as well as black & white, sepia and movie modes and RAW.

The Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens is as expected of "OUTSTANDING" picture quality making its 10M pixels CCD processor not sound as good as some of this year’s 12-14M ones but the lens quality makes up for this as most other “point and shoot” cameras have tiny 2,3 or 4 element lenses often made of inexpensive mass produced plastics, yet with this lens all 9 elements have anti reflection coatings, as you turn on the camera a compact protruding 17mm lens unit grows to an amazing 55mm. It is 6.3 to 25.2mm f2.8-4.9ASPH (equiv to 28-112mm for 35mm format) with 4 X Optical zoom to max 6.2 X digital, one minor downside point is the labelled macro setting only focuses in to about 1 foot (30cm) but accessories on EBay/Amazon can be found for true macro/wide angle or telephoto lenses as well as filters, again products not usually freely available for a compact “point and shoot” camera!
The 2.8" LCD is extremely bright and clear even in the sun! Its brightness is fully adjustable as can the amount of info displayed (up to 23 settings) another original feature is the "high angle" viewing of the screen that works a lot like a car anti-rear headlight glare mirror that bends the light down enabling you to hold the camera high above your head and yet still view what you are taking pictures or movies of i.e. in a crowd/carnival/concert. Whilst being assembled in Japan by sister company Panasonic (equiv model DMC-LX2) this gem is designed and specified by Leica in Germany,

I found information about how these lenses take 40 minutes for each element to be individually ground, polished and tested (this camera has 9 lens elements) whereas the Panasonic models use mass production techniques, as do parts and picture processing firmware for both have large differences as do the CCD qualities and manufacturing tolerances, also the D-LUX3 is 45 grams heavier again due to the noticeable extra build quality as all the parts including the body shell are not made of plastics or flimsy aluminium like other modern cameras, this is a very solid product indeed.
Even the shutter clicks with quality and all sounds and beeps can be turned down (i.e. in a church or library shh) and finally a quaint retro pop up flash with anti redeye etc. and quality German made leather case with a belt loop and a detachable shoulder strap (that makes it look like a smaller copy of the £3000 Leica M8) in classic "cognac-brown" is a must accessory.

Bad points are lack of macro, fiddly joystick manual focus (no focusing ring on the lens) and I suppose the price but one has to pay extra for such quality and as I acquired mine for a mere £150 second hand including the case it is surely the lowest entry into the world of “Leica”.
I truly adore this pocket able compact as it can go anywhere with me unlike my huge Nikon with its enormous 5fps motor drive! This D-LUX3 can do bursts of up to 5fps in still mode.

The "good things come in small packages" is an understatement this is a truly amazing simple or as complicated as you want compact digital camera in an amazing quality robust package.
Leica means the best German engineering and a special culture of the picture, exuding optical quality to transform photos into a personal creative fulfillment; I quote "every D-LUX3 picture tells its own story.

It shoots RAW, the ultimate basis for great digital photos. It's pretty small for such a rich feature set.

Some will be put off by the price. Sorry - it's worth every penny.

This camera takes great pictures! It is also a very very flexible camera - so you can shoot simple pics right out of the box, and with every reading of the manual and trying out a new feature, you can extend what you can do. The knob dial controls the basics, aperture, speed, program, auto, etc. The joystick let's you change deeper key settings, and adjust aperture, speed, etc on the fly. Definitely splurge on two extras - a 4GB card, and on the Leica leather case.

Customer Service

haven't had to seek any.

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Sony Cybershot - liked that with an extra case I could take it scuba diving!

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