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Leica SL3-S

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Leica SL3-S

Mirrorless · L-mount · released 2025-01-16
Lowest now
$3,729
Good price -30% vs MSRP
See prices at 4 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$5,295
Jan 2025
Inventory
22
across 4 sources

Near the 90-day low

How we compute this

Close to the 90-day low. Within $130 of the 90-day low of $3,599. 70% of the $5,295 MSRP. Prices are down 3.9% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$3,729
MSRP
$5,295
vs MSRP
-30%
90-day low
$3,599
All-time low
$3,599 (Sep 4, 2026)
30-day trend
-3.9%
Observed across 4 sources · 43 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
bh
good
→ good
$4,100
1 Observed 21h ago view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$3,850
ships free
8 Observed 21h ago view listing
keh
excellent
→ excellent
$4,158
1 Observed 15h ago view listing
keh
new
→ mint
$5,665
1 Observed 15h ago view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$3,729
3 Observed 20h ago view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$3,999
3 Observed 20h ago view listing
mpb
like new
→ mint
$4,099
5 Observed 20h ago 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
IBIS
Weather sealed
Yes
Max video
6K30
Max native ISO
Weight
772 g
Dimensions
Body material
Released
2025-01-16
Status
current

Notes

Speed-focused sibling to the SL3: same 24MP full-frame sensor as the SL2-S (with 48/96MP multi-shot modes) tuned for up to 30fps continuous AF burst shooting, phase-detect + object-detect autofocus, IP54-rated sealed body. ProRes 4:2:2 HQ up to 5.8K30/C4K60. Weight is approximate (unverified against a production unit, based on the SL3's 772g).

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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

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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.