Lumix is Panasonic’s brand of digital cameras, from pocket point and shoot models to digital SLRs. Many Lumix models are fitted with Leica lenses that have been developed and designed by Leica’s German optics engineers but are produced in Japan, and some are effectively Leica branded cameras without the brand name and with different exterior styling. Panasonic Lumix Most Lumix cameras use different releases of the Panasonic Venus Engine for digital image processing; the original version was followed by II, III, and IV (2008).

Panasonic produces all of Leica’s branded digital point and shoot cameras in Japan, but not film cameras, the Leica M8 digital rangefinder camera, Panasonic digital cameras or the Digital Modul R digital camera back for the Leica R9 film SLR.