There are exceptions, the Leica 40mm/ Minolta 40mm (which I will come to), Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f1.4 lens and Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f2 SL II lens (Nikon mount) which I own. The 50mm focal length was said to be easy to design compared to wider lenses so that probably explains why 50mm became the ‘normal’ lens on most cameras there after.Ĥ0mm is an unusual focal length as it is too close to the popular 35mm lenses so most consumers and manufacturers seemed to skip 40mm in their lens lineup. Examples include the Leica Summar, Summitar, Summarit, Summicron, Elmar, Summilux 50mm lenses and similar designs from Canon (especially), Nikon and others. Other manufacturers followed and most early LTM or 元9 mount lenses were 50mm. This was also true for the first Leica M camera, the Leica M3 which has a 50mm frameline viewfinder as the default design. The first Oscar Barnack Leicas were build around a 50mm lens and all the early Leica cameras have a 50mm (or 5cm at the time) viewfinder window only. The Leica CL is unusual in that it is designed around the use of a 40mm lens rather than the standard 50mm focal length. The Lens – Leica CL 40mm lens 40mm lens (40mm vs 50mm) I have the Fuji GF670 branded version but this is the same as the Voigtlander Bessa iii camera. Fuji and Voigtlander joined forces in 2008 to release their amazing 6×6/6×7 folding camera. The Leica-Minolta collaboration is perhaps similar to that between Fuji and Voigtlander when they worked together a few years back. Some of the CL cameras manufactured are branded as Minolta CL or Leica Minolta CL and some, like mine as a Leica CL (or Leitz CL). The Leica CL is different to many Leica cameras in that it was built in collaboration with Minolta. Leica CL film (left) Leica CL digital (right) Minolta CL vs Leica CL I’ve started to write “digital Leica CL” on my Flickr posts and I will make sure to “film Leica CL” when I start posting film images! Any images posted prior to this review were shot with the digital CL for reference. Digital Leica CL and film Leica CLĪs I already use the digital Leica CL camera it will get confusing now I also have the film Leica CL. This review is based on the Leica CL purchase and compares it to other film cameras -Leica M3, Leica iiia and Voigtlander Bessa R3A. Perhaps 5 years later I found myself buying a Leica CL camera on eBay. The film Leica CL didn’t impress me enough at the time but my photography has matured since then.
I picked it up as the low price interested me but I put it back. My first discovery of the 35mm Leica CL camera was seeing one in a vintage camera store in London years ago.
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