Leica CL Hands On Review

Leica CL - A Feel Good Camera

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 introduced the Leica TL - the other Leica APS-C camera. 
The Leica TL was pretty innovative as it had clean lines, no accessory ports and a unique tile menu system. However, it had no rangefinder and that was one of the most requested features. It did have an auxiliary viewfinder that could be attached on to the accessory shoe, but in the end, it was costly and clunky.

Leica certainly was not asleep at the wheel and a few months later (November 2017), the company introduced the Leica CL. This is the camera the TL should have been. Paying tribute to the historical Leica cameras, the new Leica TL takes its design inspiration from Oskar Barnack and some of the company's most iconic cameras from the last century...