Leica CL Film Camera

Leica CL Film Camera

Leica CL

maker: Leica
format: film
lens mount: Leica M
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In 1973, Leica and Minolta collaborated to design the smallest, lightest of the M series cameras with Minolta producing the bulk of the lot.

Features include:

  • Features a meter needle exposure system which is highlighted by a selective TTL meter with a highly accurate spot pattern (only a few later version even had a meter)

  • Mechanical operation with the metered being powered by a Mercury 625 battery

  • Shutter speeds: 1/2 s to 1/1000, plus B (which are visible in the viewfinder)

  • Projected Parallax corrected framelines for 40, 50 & 90mm lenses (the outside edge roughly equals a 35mm lens)

  • ASA range: 25 - 1600

Photos Taken with this Camera

Poppies
Milan Galleria
Piazza dei Duomo

Related Articles

Below is a list of articles in which this camera is discussed, or at least mentioned, on this site.

Vertical Use of Half Case (mar 03, 2012)

I bought a half case for my Leitz Minolta CL (i.e., Leica CL) camera—the bottom half of the camera is wrapped leather. I bought it from a small manufacturer in China. It’s a very nice, but I don’t use it in the way many people do.