Leica Q review: The best fixed-lens full-frame compact ever made | Pocket-lint

Leica is one of those brands that’s been around for donkeys years, and for good reason: it makes such exceptionally good optics for its high-end M-series rangefinder cameras that it’s in a league of its own. But while the photographic elite might wax lyrical about such cameras, for the majority of us they will probably just seem like hard-to-use, overpriced, overly angular slabs of German engineering. The Leica Q represents a brand in the throes of change, one looking to appeal to both new and existing customers. This full-frame fixed-lens compact, which pairs a 28mm f/1.7 Summilux lens with 24-megapixel sensor, isn’t a rebadged and renamed Panasonic like so many of Leica’s compact cameras are. Instead it’s a bold, niche, yet thoroughly exciting solo venture…….

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