Leica CL quick street review
This Leica CL mirrorless camera review is by Gianni Galassi (Flickr | Blurb):
Thanks to my friend Gilberto Benni, manager of the Leica Store Piazza di Spagna in Rome, I had the opportunity to quickly try the Leica CL just a couple of days after its official launch. As soon as we met, he handed me the camera along with the newly introduced Elmarit 18mm TL and an M-to-TL adapter. I only had three hours to play with the much awaited CL, so I ran out of the store and had a walk in downtown Rome.
Leica CL – Adapted Leica Elmarit-M 90mm – ISO 5000
As a film-era born photographer, Leica’s homage to the original CL of the Seventies aroused my expectations. The old CL was a marvelous tiny 35mm film camera with an M bayonet. I recall having owned two of them as back-ups for my M4P bodies, and they were a joy to use. Shortly, the film CL could be considered as a fully featured mini-M: same lenses, same format, same controls, same (more or less) build quality, all in a small, almost pocketable and cheaper package.
