Leica enthusiasts (and there are plenty of them) are about to completely lose it – the much-touted medium-format dSLR, the Leica S2, has finally been given a real release date: October 2009. It’s not going to come cheap though, with an estimated local price of about $40,000.

The incredibly-spec camera has the body of a dSLR but the soul of a medium-format, sporting a Kodak-designed 37.5 megapixel sensor at 30 x 45mm – about 56 per cent larger than the sensor in a full-frame dSLR.

And if the S2 isn’t exclusive enough, there’s an optional S2-P model which features a sapphire glass monitor screen and a ‘Platinum Service’ package for only a few thousand pounds more.

The S2 also will also have an entire range of specially-designed lenses that reportedly don’t suffer from such issues a vignetting.

Local release dates are yet to be confirmed, but one thing is certain: we want one.

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