TESTED: LEICA Q2

Let’s get it out of the way, the Leica Q2 is a very nice camera. And I mean very, very nice. There’s that beautiful magnesium body, there’s that lovely red dot that you’ll catch people admiring when it hangs around your neck, and there’s that retro rectangular lens hood that just screams ‘street photography’. But there’s something else too, that just about every Leica camera reviewer seemingly can’t help but touch on – think of it as a certain intangible quality – the mystique, the feel, the emotion of photography, that somehow only Leica is able to channel. Does this camera have it? Well, maybe. Let me explain.

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The Leica Q2 is a fixed-lens compact camera with a full-frame 47-megapixel sensor, a rangefinder-style electronic viewfinder, weather-sealed body, and a fixed 28mm f1.7 lens. It’ll set you back $7,999.

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