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I enjoyed reading this. I particularly like the rich saturated colors. I have a CL and the M-to-L adapter but have not tried any M glass yet. Maybe a 21 M lens is in my future.

Jeff, I think that's one of my favorite things to do with the CL as well – experimenting with vintage M glass can be fun especially with the crop factor making a 50mm f/1.4 the perfect portrait lens!

Merv, thanks for the great feedback! You definitely should give some of the CL prime lenses a try – especially the 35 f/1.4 and 60 f/2.8. They are stunning and I would say as sharp as any M lens I've used. I find the autofocus fast enough for most things personally. I also just use a center point focus spot and recompose as needed, which I find to be the fastest approach. And of course always make sure your CL is updated to the latest firmware for best performance.

Just about every image that is posted on the site has been shot in DNG and edited in Lightroom. The CL is a great camera, but ultimately, to get the best looking images, shooting in DNG is the preferred method. To help get most of the way there, I did publish a suite of Lightroom presets for every Leica digital camera. You can check that out here: Lightroom Presets for Leica Cameras

The CL has no way of knowing what aperture you've set on an M lens as this is completely mechanical with no electronic relay at all. The digital M cameras feature a secondary light meter above the lens to approximate the aperture value when measured against the ISO and shutter speed value for the recorded picture. Sometimes it's fairly accurate, but other times varies considerably, depending on the scene. As there is no secondary meter on the CL, the camera cannot make the same estimate. So, the CL will not record any value for the aperture in the image EXIF data.

The CL EVF will auto-gain so what you see is what you get. When setting f-stop on an M lens, the aperture is changing in real time. So while the overall amount of light is decreasing when stopping down, the camera will gain up the image so that the resulting exposure is still accurately shown. When opening up, the viewfinder will gain down. The experience works very well and is largely seamless.

The CL has no way of knowing what aperture you’ve set on an M lens as this is completely mechanical with no electronic relay at all. The digital M cameras feature a secondary light meter above the lens to approximate the aperture value when measured against the ISO and shutter speed value for the recorded picture. Sometimes it’s fairly accurate, but other times varies considerably, depending on the scene.

Daniel, I do address this at the end of the article when I say they are working on it! Hopefully we'll see it before the year is out. It just takes time, and relative to the age of the other cameras currently supported the M10 is quite new.

All good, I am glad you enjoyed the post. I've been using the chargers myself the past few weeks with great results.

Sorry, but this is not “USB charging” in the true sense. All this is, and I have a few of these, is a regular charger with a USB plugin instead of a typical electrical plug in. The charger to camera connection is unchanged. What this gets you is arguable, as you can easily purchase (for a lot less $$$) a right angle plug to replace the cord.

A real “USB charging” camera allows you to leave the battery in the camera and simply connect a cable to a USB slot on the camera. A smaller(er) charger is configured as a electrical plug. The Sony has this.

Daniel, just an update there is now an M10 charger! You can read about it here: https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2018/10/its-here-the-leica-m10-usb-dual-battery-charger-by-nitecore/

Just want to give you a heads up on the nitecore charger for the Leica sl.it does not charge the battery to 100 percent.the readout of the bars is at max,it reads good and end comes on.then if you charge the battery in the Leica charger it charges the battery for another 15mins approx.to 100 percent.i was not able to shoot for about 4 days.so when I went to charge my battery on the nitecore the readout was good,bars at max and end came on.this is how I know it was not at 100 percent charged.so I charged the battery in the Leica charger and about 15mins.later the battery was at 100 percent.i love the nitecore for the readout on the battery health and using it in the field with my portable battery charger.but if you want your batteries to be at 100 percent charged you need to use the Leica charger.so what I do now is use the nitecore for the readout on battery health.then use the Leica charger to charge the battery up to 100 percent.i think the nitecore does about 85 percent approx.

David,
I appreciate your comment:

This is just not cool.

Apple has replied that the throttling was a firmware fault and it has been corrected ?