LEICA CAMERA Minilux Automatic Point-and-Shoot 35mm Camera

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful, you can carry it with you every day
Review: Just pick it up and you can feel the quality. It's no plastic lightweight consumer camera: this is a long-lasting metal bodied camera that oozes quality.
The lens is superb, and much better than the Minilux Zoom. The controls are in all the right places and will fall naturally to hand. The lens cap is automatic, so you can't lose it. Battery life seems fine. And Henri Cartier-Bresson uses one! End of story.
Actually there is one problem - it is so quiet that recently I wasn't certain that it was working when I was taking pictures in a busy bar. It was only when the film was developed that I found that I had a number of identical pictures. So now I hold it with one finger brushing against the side of the lens barrel so I can feel when the lens moves out to focus just as I squeeze off another shot. Seriously, for 'street photography' it is very unobtrusive so long as you turn off the flash. And because it's fairly small it fits easily into a pocket and also it doesn't intimidate people in the your pictures.