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Leica V-LUX 20 Digital Camera

Leica unveiled a compact super zoom digital camera with exciting features called Leica V-LUX 20 Digital Camera. The dimension of the camera is 103 × 62 × 33 mm (4.05 × 2.44 × 1.30 inches). It has 12.1 Megapixels of effective image resolution. The LCD monitor of this camera is 3.0 inches TFT display having 460,000 dots of resolution. It contains 1/2.33 inches of CCD type of sensor. The total pixel capacity of the sensor is 14.5 million.

V-LUX 20 uses Leica DC Vario Elmar 4.1 to 49.2 mm aspherical zoom lens. The lens gets constructed with 10 elements in eight groups having three aspherical surfaces. The optical zoom of the lens is 12x. The digital zoom capacity will be up to 4x. The various image aspect ratios of the camera are 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9. The normal focus distance at wide end will be 50 cm to infinity and at tele end, 2 m to infinity. The shutter speed varies from 60 seconds to 1/2000 of a second. V-LUX 20 ISO sensitivity ranges from auto, ISO 80 to ISO 1600. The self timer options available are two seconds and 10 seconds.

The integrated image stabilization feature reduces the chance of blurred images due to camera shake or difficult lighting situations. V-LUX 20 is the first digital camera of Leica to include built-in GPS tagging. This exclusive feature allows the user to record geographical coordinates of the location automatically. It also records the local time for every single shot as well. This camera can display the names of interesting sightseeing locations. It contains a total of 500,000 point of interest across 73 countries. It can record movies at high definition.

There are various modes available in this camera. Some of them are program mode, snapshot, scene and movie. The white balance settings available are auto, daylight, cloudy, shade, halogen and white set. V-LUX 20 includes automatic exciting features such as face recognition, smart exposure and automatic scene modes all available in the movie mode along with the zoom functions. Leica V-LUX 20 comes with a complete copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0, easy to use image processing software.

The accessories included with this camera are battery charger (Leica BC-DC 7), battery (Leica BP-DC 7), wrist strap, AV cable, USB cable and software DVD. The internal memory capacity is 15 MB and it uses SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards for storage. It uses lithium-ion rechargeable battery Leica BP-DC 7 for power. The camera weighs 196 grams (6.91 ounces) without battery and 218 grams (7.68 ounces) with battery. Leica V-LUX 20 digital camera is priced around 700 US Dollars.

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Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:46:04 +0000

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