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Leica CL: The Volkskamera

The early 1970's were not kind to Ernst Leitz GmbH. They had missed the boat on the SLR revolution, and

then they released two cameras, one of which was not good enough for what it was, and another which

was too good. Together they came close to sinking the company, and Leica never were quite the same

since.

The camera that was not quite good enough was the Leica M5. It was Leica's attempt at answering the

SLR challenge. It added some highly advanced features for the time: a longer-baselength rangefinder and

improved viewfinder, making it the most precise-to-focus Leica ever, and through-the-lens metering with

a needle indicator. However, it also ditched the clean, elegant lines of previous M's in favor of a more

angular "brutalist" look, and it was significantly larger than previous models. Even if it is a lot better

regarded nowadays, it tanked in the marketplace, and left Leica on the ropes.

The Leica CL I bought. It's a fairly low serial number, meaning it was manufactured around 1973. It has

seen some use, but is working as well as the day it rolled off the assembly line in Japan.

The camera that was too good for its station was the Leica CL, paired with two lenses, the Summicron-C

2/40 and Summicron-C 4/90. It was designed by Leica but manufactured under contract in Japan by

Minolta. Later, Minolta sold it under its own brand name, and even took the design further with the

Minolta CLE -- the first M-mount body to offer aperture-priority auto-exposure until the Konica Hexar

RF. Leica intended the CL as a relatively inexpensive way to get people into the M-system, but ended up

cannibalizing its own market. Despite their unique strengths, rangefinders were in a shrinking niche, and a

best-selling low-end body left no room for Leica's higher-margin models.

In retrospect, this isn't very surprising. The fact is that the Leica CL has most of the desirable

characteristics of the M5 in a package that's smaller, better looking, arguably more comfortable to handle,

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Leica CL: The VolkskameraThe early 1970's were not kind to Ernst Leitz GmbH. They had missed the boat on the SLR revolution, andthen they release

Seite 2 - Where does it stand?

"Joanna at the café," Summicron-C 40/2.0 wide-open on Fujichrome Provia 400F. The lens is not deadsharp wide-open, but it "degrades gra

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"Big bridge, little dog," on Ektachrome 400 around f/8. The lens is very sharp at this aperture, but flareartifacts are noticeable: with the

Seite 4 - Back to the beginning

Being sharp and even across the frame, the lens lends itself very well to "landscape-style" photography aswell as the street shooting most t

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"Only Friends Matter," on Provia 400F. In this kind of picture, corner sharpness and distortion do matter-- it would not have turned out as

Seite 6 - How does it handle?

"Fuck Bush," on Ektachrome 400.A note on digitizing filmOne of the things that caused me to stop shooting film was that scanning is such a d

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8. Move slide holder to next frame. If you hold it to the markers, you won't need to "re-focus" betweenframes. Shoot. Repeat until bore

Seite 8 - How are the pictures?

"At the Souk," Canon FD 50/1.4 SSC on Provia 100F. I managed to get the low-key detail in thegentleman's sweater much better this way t

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and much cheaper. It has a bright, big, very sharp viewfinder with parallax-corrected framelines, a bright,crisp rangefinder spot permitting both spli

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brand, there have been a number of pretty good ways into rangefinder shooting that don't involvefive-figure price tags."Humanity is not for

Seite 11 - What's it good for?

• Finally, it is a Leica. I know because it says so right on the front, and Leitz Wetzlar on the top platetoo. Made in Japan or not, it represents a p

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I have been shooting almost exclusively with all-automatic cameras for some years now. Going to a fullymanual camera, albeit with a through-the-lens l

Seite 13 - The Leica CL on the Net

"Escalator Goths," on Provia 400F. This was pretty much a grab shot, wide-open in poor light, yet itdidn't turn out too bad. I had adju

Seite 14 - A note on digitizing film

A peek through the viewfinder. Note the slight barrel distortion. The thick brightline to the right doublesas the 40 mm frameline and meter indicator:

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"Runners on the first day of spring," on Provia 400F. The lens doesn't enjoy this much backlight, but theframe was still salvageable, a

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One thing that surprised me was that after the fumbles on my first roll, I get a good deal fewer technicalwashouts on the CL than I do with just about

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