The Leica Leitzphone is a Xiaomi-powered high-end smartphone for images lovers

One of the stand-out debuts at this yr’s Mobile World Congress, the Leica Leitzphone is the primary devoted smartphone to bear the title of the famed digital camera model. Developed in collaboration with Chinese tech large Xiaomi, the Leica Leitzphone places image-making entrance and centre of the smartphone expertise.

As befits any system bearing the legendary crimson dot, the Leitzphone has a premium specification and premium worth. It launches alongside Xiaomi’s new 17 sequence smartphones, which proceed the Chinese producer’s four-year partnership with Leica on optics and digital camera modules.

The Leitzphone, nevertheless, actually stresses the collaboration via design and performance, combining the camera-maker’s longstanding ethos of creating immediate, out there and accessible high-quality photographic gear. ‘The Leica Leitzphone demonstrates our vision for the future of photography,’ Leica’s CEO Matthias Harsch says, ‘It brings our design principles, our expertise in image processing and our photographic ethos into everyday life.’

Following the timeless maxim that one of the best digital camera for the job is the one you could have in your hand, the Leitzphone goals to place all of the capabilities of a high-end compact into the smartphone format, full with bodily contact factors. That means a devoted mechanical ring surrounding the multi-camera module, a customisable management that may be assigned to zoom, publicity, ISO and shutter velocity.

As nicely as overseeing the system design and digital camera person interface, Leica has additionally included 13 ‘Leica Looks’, devoted images modes that mimic basic movie grain and high quality, together with digital emulation of Leica lens bokeh. In addition, the devoted Leica Essential Mode attracts on firm classics like a Leica M9-inspired color profile and Leica Monopan black and white movie.

The triple-camera system includes a 1-inch sensor on the primary digital camera, in addition to a periscope telephoto digital camera with a big 200-megapixel sensor that gives optical zoom from 75 to 100mm. The entire package deal is offered in Leica’s black and silver framework, sealed with the signature crimson dot emblem.

Leica Leitzphone powered by Xiaomi, on sale now through the official Leica web site and Leica Stores, £1,700.00 / €1,999.00, Leica-Camera.com, @Leica_Camera, Mi.com, @Xiaomi.Global