Per Ofverbeck
Member
A real oldie by now; why buy such a leftover today? Well, my friendly Leica dealer showed me one he had still left. As it happens, I had just given up on my old, beaten X1 that had lots of scars, and was of course glacially slow, but still that special image quality. I decided to give that lovely all-black X2 a chance.
And now, I just can´t seem to let it out of my hands. A REAL camera, with real controls, feels like a classic Leica, and is just fast enough to actually use in a leisurely manner. I can´t say the IQ has improved from the X1, but that is good enough for me. And most of those little quirks the X1 had seem to be all but ironed out. If I still feel like this about it for a month or so, I´ve finally found my convenient "take-everywhere-camera" (I thought I had when I got my Ricoh GR, but 28 mm is TOO wide for me, its controls are well thought-out but don´t give that good old camera feeling, and the colours just aren´t Leica class, period).
Two of my very first pictures with the X2:
And now, I just can´t seem to let it out of my hands. A REAL camera, with real controls, feels like a classic Leica, and is just fast enough to actually use in a leisurely manner. I can´t say the IQ has improved from the X1, but that is good enough for me. And most of those little quirks the X1 had seem to be all but ironed out. If I still feel like this about it for a month or so, I´ve finally found my convenient "take-everywhere-camera" (I thought I had when I got my Ricoh GR, but 28 mm is TOO wide for me, its controls are well thought-out but don´t give that good old camera feeling, and the colours just aren´t Leica class, period).
Two of my very first pictures with the X2: