Or you could buy the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 which is identical to the D-Lux 3; the D-lux 4 will likely be the Panasonic LX3. The Panasonic FX100 is the C-Lux 3. They are identical, you are paying twice the price for the red badge.
Also, the $5k+ Leica M8 is severely flawed at the moment and has a lot of noise. The CCD sensor is far outdated- a cheaper Rebel can take vastly better pictures (you can even mount Leica lenses to EF mount with an adapter). They should have upgraded the first sensor instead of putting stupid sapphire on the LCD screen.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Or you could buy the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 which is identical to the D-Lux 3; the D-lux 4 will likely be the Panasonic LX3. The Panasonic FX100 is the C-Lux 3. They are identical, you are paying twice the price for the red badge.
Also, the $5k+ Leica M8 is severely flawed at the moment and has a lot of noise. The CCD sensor is far outdated- a cheaper Rebel can take vastly better pictures (you can even mount Leica lenses to EF mount with an adapter). They should have upgraded the first sensor instead of putting stupid sapphire on the LCD screen.
read all about it here:
http://web.mac.com/kamberm/Leica_M8_Field_Test,_Iraq/Page_1.html