by Olan Pays

For about 84 years now, since 1925, Leica has been popular with its Leica’s range finder (RF) cameras. However, Leica really got its popularity in 1930 till 1970; it was the golden age for RF cameras. Leica continues to hit the market with its RF cameras until the digital era changed it all.

Leica move slowly to response the arriving of digital cameras era. No one knows the reason why it moves so slowly. Some would say that is because Leica cannot afford to jump quickly into expensive research and development projects. Others would say that it lets the digital race pass it by while it twiddled its thumbs and released extravagant collectors editions of its film cameras. Who knows?

The dream of the Leica cameras fans comes true since Leica finally introduce its digital cameras. You can easily find these Leica digital cameras on the market today.

Some of Leica digital cameras still maintain the range finder format such as the Leica M-series. With this, Leica have its own brand on the digital range finder cameras.

If you want to check out for the Leica digital cameras, below are some popular cameras from Leica.

1. Leica D-LUX 3

An ultra compact camera D-LUX 3 sports 10 million effective pixels and 4x optical zoom. Also featured with 2.8 ” LCD screen, image stabilization, built-in flash and manual focus.

2. Leica Digilux 3

Digilux 3 is an SLR type of Leica digital cameras. It has 7.4 million effective pixels, image stabilization and 2.5 ” LCD screen.

3. Leica V-LUX 1

This SLR-like camera sports a 10 million effective pixels, 12x optical zoom, image stabilization, manual focus and 2 ” LCD.

4. Leica M8

A range finder M8 sports a 10.3 effective megapixels, manual focus and 2.5 ” LCD. Leica M8 comes with external flash.