Digilux 2

[clausing]

Hey Jerry, You have to update Photoshop CS with a utility available at Adobe's website, then it will be able to open Digilux 2 Raw Files! Works great for me. Good luck! Gerhard Clausing

 

[putnasaur]

Has anyone tried hyperfocusing with the D2? Can it be done given the focal length of the lens? Thanks.

Peace.

 

[jerryharwood]

has anyone tried using the electronic release on the D2 ? I tried to get a Leica dealer to demonstrate, but he tried a new D2, with anew lectronic release without any success at all ! he gave up in embarrassment ! Just mumbled about Leica being a bit slow !! not impressed ...

 

[jem]

Regarding the electronic release. Though I haven't used the D2 personally, I have encountered other digital cameras where getting them to do the seemingly simplest things can prove troublesome.
A Fuji 'pro' camera would not provide a contact signal to its 2mm co-ax socket unless three pages of manual were read and the correct buttons, knobs and dials were adjusted in the correct order...
It may well need something similar before the remote release is 'recognised' by the internal programme.
Jem

 

[missmiw]

Hello!

I've got a electronic cable release and it works perfectly. The function of the button is the same as the on camera release button.

niels

 

[putnasaur]

I've figured out the one thing I don't like about the D2: no focus confirmation during manual focus. Call me a Gen X photojournalist, someone who has grown up with all the gizmos of the Nikon SLRS, but focus confirmation would make this camera, for me, perfect. Other than one little quibble, I love this little camera.

 

[ted_grant]

[ The last time I looked in the Digilux 2 there's focus confirmation when the little green dot stops blinking. And it indicates the exposure has been locked in also. However having used the Digilux 2 for 6 months 99.9% set on "auto- everything" I've had excellent results under almost under every light condition you can imagine. From which we've made a couple hundred 12"X18" prints on Epson 13"X19" size paper using an Epson 2200 printer.

And although I'm a professional photojournalist of 50 plus years of being published and always hated "auto-everything cameras" I now find myself extremely hooked on the Digilux 2's auto-everything mode!" ted]

 

[putnasaur]

Ted, I generally use the D2 on Aperture Prioirty. I've tried manual on it but it didn't feel comfortable, so back to AP-mode I went.
I've looked through the manual for focus confirmation in manual focusing; its not there.
So where are you based now and where have you worked? I'm in Baghdad with the Army now and will be working in San Diego next year.

Peace.

 

[chris_yates]

> I have just checked my Digilux 2 on manual focus and there is no green confirmation spot. I am based in the UK. Hope this helps. Like Ted, I have used this camera on auto everything which, combined with a superb spot metering mode, I have found to be extremely good. The only criticism I have is that you need to pan very carefully when photgraphing moving subjects.

Chris

 

[putnasaur]

Have you tried prefocusing to say f/5.6 at 5 feet (1.6 meters)?

I've been using the center metering mode in day light and spot metering at night. Yeah, I use the thing at night and low light situations. I push the ASA/ISO to 400, the EV from +1 to +2 and use available light. The flash comes out very rarely.

Peace.