Leica Q

Leica Q

Leica's latest special-purpose camera - Leica Q - is aimed at wealthy street photographers who don't want to lug around heavy equipment or change lenses to capture images. The Leica Q is a full-frame compact camera with an attached fixed-focus lens. Its price of $4,250 (approximately Rs. 2,72,000) will definitely cause a few professional photographers to raise their eyebrows. If it is any consolation, Leica is also bundling a free copy of Adobe Lightroom 6.It has a 3-inch touchscreen LCD with a resolution of 1.04m dots. There's also a 3.68-megapixel electronic viewfinder. The camera can shoot 1080p video at 30/60 fps. Connectivity-wise the camera can do NFC and Wi-Fi.

The camera has a 24-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with the capability to touch a high ISO level of 50000. Leica claims that the sensor was built to work the best with the attached Summilux 28mm f/1.7 ASPH lens (image stabilised). Leica claims that this is the fastest lens on a compact camera and its closest competition, the Sony RX1, features a Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2 lens.