The camera uses a digital rangefinder camera with interchangeable lenses and a full-frame 18 megapixel sensor.

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This month, the famous German company will introduce its first digital rangefinder camera at the Photokina trade show in Cologne -- the same location where the first Leica M3 was announced in 1954.

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The functioning equipment on the probe includes a device to measure the asteroid's magnetism, a spectrometer to examine its composition, an electronic camera and a laser rangefinder to survey its precise shape.

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