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Liking Leica

Q I’m interested in the new Leica Q2 camera, but I have some concerns over its cropping functions…

Valerie Turner

A This new compact camera from Leica has a big full-frame sensor. You are concerned, however, that despite its high price it has only a fixed 28mm lens. You’ve also read that it has an integrated digital zoom crop function that covers a range of focal lengths up to 75mm. Does this mean, you wonder, that an image taken at 50mm will still have sufficient pixels to avoid loss of detail, or do the extra pixels only benefit large-scale prints?

There’s no doubt that the Leica Q2 is a terrific camera, and it certainly has an impressively large full-frame sensor at 47.3MP. To be honest, even at its 35mm