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We much preferred the Leica CL to the TL2 we reviewed in November, partly because of its more conventional styling and controls but mostly because it has an excellent built-in EVF. It would have felt better in the hands if Leica had added a grip...
The compact system camera market at the moment is particularly strong, with something to suit just about every type of customer.Traditionally, Leica users are those who crave high image quality in a body which is well-built and has traditional...
The CL is wonderfully tactile camera that begs you to pick it up and start taking pictures. It’s far too pricey for most, and has some fairly obvious flaws, but even so it’s a hugely desirable piece of kit.
The Leica CL might be forgiven some of its oddities and omissions at a lower price. But if you've been waiting for a Leica mirrorless that looks like a traditional Leica and consider its quirks part of the experience, then go forth and...
The Leica CL might be forgiven some of its oddities and omissions at a lower price. But if you've been waiting for a Leica mirrorless that looks like a traditional Leica and consider its quirks part of the experience, then go forth and...
The CL is a nice combination of what we tend to regard as ‘traditional' Leica and modern technology. Thanks to Leica's craftsmanship, it looks and feels like a high-quality camera and thanks to the company's imaging knowhow it also delivers high-quality...
The Leica CL digital is a camera I've been waiting a while for; almost 10 years now. But if you rewinded back to the technology world 10 years ago, you saw that mirrorless cameras weren't even a thing yet, and the Leica M9 hadn't even launched. Indeed,...
The Leica CL is a good-looking mirrorless camera produced by a company with an excellent reputation in the photographic field. The small size, especially with a small lens, makes it very portable, and offering the universal Raw DNG format is a real...
The CL is more expensive than both Panasonic's GH5 and Olympus's OM-D E-M1 Mark II—cameras that offer far more features, if not more resolution. Indeed, the CL is more expensive than any crop sensor mirrorless camera in the market by a fair margin—and...
Last week, I presented a video in our Leica Story series with Maike Harberts, Product Manager for APS at Leica. She covered Leica's APS-C Line and surprised us with the introduction of the Leica CL. It didn't seem that long ago (July 2017) when Leica...
The challenge of balancing its illustrious heritage with contemporary competitiveness must haunt Leica's engineers every time they sit down to design a new camera. With the T series they simply threw the history book out of the window, but it's clearly...