Leica Digilux 2 – the first classic digital camera

Consider what makes the Leica Digilux 2 camera a classic. It has to be of a certain vintage. When new it would have had innovative features. Those features will have stood the test of time. And it still works. Apply those criteria to film cameras and you come up with names such as Leica, Rolleiflex, Zeiss, Voigtländer and many more. Apply the same thinking to digital cameras and what do you get? Not a lot, actually. Few digital cameras have been around long enough for one to truly justify the term vintage. A particular model might have been innovative when new but its innovation was undoubtedly surpassed in the model that followed a year later. So no one single camera is likely to have stood the test of time. Also older digital cameras have a habit of failing to work. All of which begs the question: has there ever been, or will there ever be, a truly classic digital camera? Well, here’s where I stick my neck out and risk the wrath of readers flooding AP’s Inbox pages next week to disagree. For my money, one digital camera qualifies as the first – and maybe even the last – to be called […]

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