It’s right in the hand, focuses quickly and accurately, has a decent amount of AF points spread across the frame, has a fast drive when needed, intelligent menu system and of course, has Leica lenses. The Leica CL gave me the feeling that it definitely will. However, one thing I can usually tell in the first few minutes of picking up a new camera is if it’s going to work for me. Some colleagues whose opinion I value have had more time with the camera, and I will post some links at the end of this article. I had the camera for around 20 minutes, so of course this post isn’t an exhaustive test. Raw photograph processed in Adobe Lightroom and black and white treatment applied in Alienskin Exposure X3. Test shot using the Summilux-TL 35 f/1.4 ASPH. All the key ingredients for beautiful black and white photography are present.Ī portrait of Arteh Odjidja at the Leica CL Press Launch. The files lend themselves beautifully to the monochrome treatment the lenses and sensor being matched nicely to get a smooth and wide tonal range also produce a phenomenal dynamic range. The autofocus system is contrast based and has 49 points No PhDs needed to operate this menu system!īy now, I’m sure you’ve seen the specifications online, but the main points are:Ģ4.2mp APS-C CMOS sensor with a 14 stop dynamic rangeġ0 frames a second on continuous drive (with three speed settings for continuous) with a 33 frame buffer (jpeg and raw DNG)ĮVF has 2.3mp with an eye relief of 20 mm (superb for spectacle wearers) The same can be said of the menu system, which essentially includes a favourite’s page and is very elegantly done. When other camera manufacturers look at the simplicity and elegance of design with a perfect layout of buttons, dials and screens, they’ll hopefully realise that shoving extraneous buttons all over their camera’s isn’t really necessary and is in fact counterproductive to photography.
#LEICA CL REVIEW UPGRADE#
Hopefully a firmware upgrade can take care of that.Ī portrait of Robin Sinha at the Leica CL Press Launch.
#LEICA CL REVIEW MANUAL#
My only gripe here is that in manual mode, it would be nice to be able to change the dials’ functions so that shutter speed and aperture can be swapped around if needed. The twin dials with push down control clicks and a small screen between them means that modes and settings can quickly be navigated not only without fuss, but very naturally. Without looking at a manual or much fuss at all, I took to its beautifully designed and elegant switchgear ergonomics which have been thought through just make the camera a very natural and comfortable extension of the photographer. The mark of a well thought out design, one crafted by engineers who are passionate photographers and not just very clever folk, is that when you pick it up, you can just start to use it. A portrait of Arteh Odjidja at the Leica CL Press Launch.
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