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Another camera? Hardly an icon

Silence yourself and stop this heresy. No Leica is ever “just another camera” and the V-Lux 30 is no exception. Featuring Leica’s classically elegant minimalist styling and available with a timeless tan leather case, this matt black point-and-shoot will turn more heads than your paltry “deep” shots of a plastic bag floating in the wind.

Looks aren’t everything, you know

The V-Lux 30 has as much brain as beauty. For starters, it features a 14.1MP sensor, 16x optical zoom and a generously sized touchscreen for idiot-proof operation. Full HD video recording, a stereo 3D picture mode, GPS tagging and an electronic wind-noise filter are also packed into the svelte 33mm body.

Okay, you’ve convinced me. How soon can they take my money?

Glad you’ve seen the light. Expect to fork out £550 for the V-Lux 30 and an extra £80 for the leather case. They’re both out in June, so there’s still a bit of time to scrounge around the back of the sofa for those all important pennies.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home