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Leica SL (Typ 601)

Leica SL (Typ 601)

Mirrorless · L-mount · released 2015-10-20
Lowest now
$1,509
Steep discount -80% vs MSRP
See prices at 2 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$7,450
Oct 2015
Inventory
7
across 2 sources

Typical pricing right now

How we compute this

Today's price sits in the middle of its recent range. The 90-day window runs from $1,399 to roughly today's $1,509. 20% of the $7,450 MSRP. Prices are down 6.8% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$1,509
MSRP
$7,450
vs MSRP
-80%
90-day low
$1,399
All-time low
$1,319 (May 8, 2026)
30-day trend
-6.8%
Observed across 2 sources · 80 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
ebay
used
→ good
$1,700
ships free
4 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$1,509
3 Observed yesterday view listing

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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Specs

Brand
Leica
Family
Leica SL
Category
body
Body type
Mirrorless
Mount
L-mount
Sensor
Full Frame
Megapixels
24 MP
Lens type
—
Sensor family
Leica 24MP CMOS (SL 601)
Autofocus
Contrast Detection
AF system
Leica contrast AF
IBIS
no
Weather sealed
Yes
Max video
4K30
Max native ISO
ISO 50,000
Weight
847 g
Dimensions
147 × 104 × 39 mm
Body material
aluminum
Released
2015-10-20
Status
discontinued

Notes

First Leica SL. 24MP FF mirrorless.

Autofocus & action

AF system
Contrast detect
Focus points
49
Subject detection
Human face
Burst (mechanical)
11 fps
Buffer
33 DNG / unlimited JPEG (2 GB)
Pre-burst capture
No
Card slots
2 (Dual SD (UHS-II + UHS-I))
Sensor readout
Standard CMOS

49-field contrast AF with face detection; 11 fps with focus locked, 7 fps or 4 fps with continuous AF; dual SD slots (one UHS-II, one UHS-I).

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Measured dynamic range

Bill Claff's lab measurements of how much shadow-to-highlight range this sensor holds, plotted across the full ISO range. Higher is more latitude to recover a dark frame.

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Measurements by William J. Claff. We link rather than reprint them.

Sample photos

Real-world photos taken with this camera, grouped by EXIF data on Flickr.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
#1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.