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The Leica CL camera was
designed by E. Leitz, Wetzlar and manufactured in Japan by Minolta.
Produced from 1973 to 1976 with an estimated 65000 issues.
It has a small compact, angular body
in all black finish.
It is a range finder camera featuring
through the lens metering powered by a CdS cell like on the M5 camera.
The smooth top plate features an
accessory shoe, shutter release and film advance lever.
The camera front had a large shutter
speed control knob marked from ½ to 1/1000 of a second.
In the viewfinder top, the shutter
speeds are indicated and correct exposure is determined by lining up the meter
needle to the control notch.
The camera back and bottom are
removed in one piece for film loading.
No delayed action is provided.
The focal plane shutter operates
vertically and the viewfinder incorporates 40, 50 and 90mm bright line frames.
Like the M5 only 21mm Super
Angulon and 28 Elmarit first models cannot be used on the
CL camera due to the protruding rear part of the lens interfering with the
Cell arm action.
Catalogue number : 10700.
For illustration a CL
body with an S to M adaptor fitted to show the CdS cell.
Sided by a Summicron-C 2/40
lens, code 11541, with its rubber lens hood and an Elmar-C 4/90
lens, code 11540 with its rubber lens hood.
In the foreground the CL
instructions for use leaflet, German edition.
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