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city from a bird's eye view

Leica Looks

Unique looks for one-of-a-kind pictures

A photo captured with a Leica camera speaks its own language, instantly recognizable for its unique style. Enhance your images with Leica Looks - apply them instantly while shooting, without any need for post-processing. Simply choose from a range of pre-installed Core Looks or explore the creative Essential Looks. Your chosen look becomes instantly visible through the camera’s live view, allowing you to expand your creative boundaries.

Leica Essential Looks

Specially developed by Leica, Essential Looks are defined by their creative and distinctive visual aesthetics. Choose from an ever-expanding range of these Leica Looks to style your images with carefully harmonized colors and tones, giving your photographs a truly individual and unique character.

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Download it once, use it anywhere

Enhance your creative flexibility with Essential Looks in just a few simple steps: connect a compatible Leica camera to the Leica FOTOS App, select your desired looks, and download them. Once installed, you can use up to six Leica Looks at any time, wherever you are. 

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Market stand with vegetables
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market stand with sea food
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People hiking on a mountain
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City by the river
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Empty Asian restaurant

Leica Classic - CLS

Leica Classic brings an analog, cinematic look to digital photography. Its high contrast, soft saturation, and warm, slightly washed-out colors recreate the timeless aesthetics of a classic cinema look.

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old town
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Asian restaurant
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Colorful hand grips
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Chef prepares meat
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Emtpy hallway

Leica Contemporary - CNT

Leica Contemporary delivers a modern aesthetic, defined by bright shadows, natural colors and a subtle reddish tint. It is ideal for authentic portrait photography, capturing soft and natural-looking skin tones.

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People walk across the crosswalk
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Impressive villa with a big garden
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Chef preparing food
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Elephant children's ride
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Beautiful lighting in the bedroom

Leica Sepia - SEP

Leica Sepia offers a classic vintage look with distinctive brown and yellow tones. It replicates the feel of historical photographs, creating warmth and emotional depth.

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Street art on a wall
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Volcano crater
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City in the mountains
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City by the river at night
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Palace by the river

Leica Blue - BLU

Leica Blue evokes the distinctive blue tones of the historic cyanotype printing process. This Leica Look gives your images an artistic, stylish flair with a truly unique character.

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Volcano crater
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Asian palace
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Flower
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Street art on shutters
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Painted bus

Leica Selenium - SEL

Leica Selenium offers distinctive aesthetics with cool tones and soft contrasts, drawing inspiration from the classic selenium tones used in black-and-white photography.

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Illuminated signs in the streets
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Man walking through a red tunnel
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Single tree on a dried up field
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Castle photographed from below towards the sky
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Portrait of a woman

Leica Eternal - ETN

Leica Eternal produces images with striking contrast and bold saturation. The magenta tint adds a distinctly modern look with a captivating visual appeal.

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Skyscraper photographed trough trees
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Nature island by the sea
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Group of people in the streets of a big city
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Construction workers on the street
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Boats on a harbor

Leica Chrome - CHR

Leica Chrome features a muted color palette that accentuates subtle contrasts. This look imparts a timeless, elegant quality to your images, enhancing their classic charm.

Leica Core Looks

Leica cameras come equipped with pre-installed Core Looks. In the Film Look menu, you can select from Standard, Vivid, Natural, Monochrome, and Monochrome High Contrast. This lets you achieve a personal, consistent style directly at the point of capture.

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Leica Core Looks Standard

Leica Standard - STD

Leica Standard offers a balanced, versatile aesthetic. It preserves the natural integrity and original beauty of the scene. With realistic color reproduction, moderate contrast, and well-balanced saturation, this Leica Look is suitable for a wide variety of situations.

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Leica COre Looks Natural

Leica Natural - NAT

The Leica Natural Look delivers images that convey genuine emotion. With softened saturation and smoothly transitioning tones, this look creates gentle, timeless photos with moderate contrast.

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Leica Core Looks Vivid

Leica Vivid - VIV

Leica Vivid stands out with its dynamic, lively image style. Enhanced saturation, strong contrasts, and bold colors highlight the energy of the scene, emphasizing details.

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Leica Core Looks Monochrome

Leica Monochrom Natural - BW+NAT

This black-and-white film simulation creates images with a natural, understated charm. Subtle tones and gentle gradations preserve scenes with a quiet yet powerful aesthetic.

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Leica Core Looks Monochrome HC

Leica Monochrom High Contrast - BW+HC

With its sharp interplay of light and shadow, this look delivers a bold statement in black-and-white photography: precise and high-contrast, dramatic and impactful.