How Much Is a Used Leicaflex SL Worth? (2026 Price Guide)

Usually yes. Leica services many current and recent models, and independent specialists handle older and discontinued bodies, including the clean-lube-adjust (CLA) that vintage cameras often need. Parts can be limited on older or electronic models, so budget for a possible service and factor a CLA into the price on a body that has not been serviced recently.

Selective Light, Leica’s term for the through-the-lens selective metering it introduced on this body in 1968. A CdS cell reads a roughly 7mm central area of the frame, measured at full aperture, and you match a needle in the finder. It was Leica’s first TTL meter in an SLR and the headline upgrade over the externally-metered original Leicaflex.

The SL2 of 1974 kept the SL’s selective TTL metering but made the meter more sensitive in low light, brightened the finder, and redesigned the mirror box to clear the new 16mm and 19mm R lenses. The SL2 had a short two-year run and is the more collectible; the SL was made longer, is more common and cheaper, and is the value way into the TTL Wetzlar Leicaflex. Mechanically both are excellent.

Two common ones. The red plastic lens-release button can crack or break with age and is a known weak point, so check it works cleanly. And the meter, a CdS cell from the early 1970s, may be out of calibration or dead, so confirm it responds and tracks if you plan to use it. The mechanical shutter itself is robust; listen across all speeds and budget for a CLA on an unserviced body.

It is a 2-cam body: 2-cam and 3-cam R lenses mount and meter, and 1-cam original Leicaflex lenses also fit. The SL predates the mirror-box change of the SL2, so the 16mm and 19mm R lenses designed for the SL2 are not compatible. The same lenses adapt to modern Leica SL and L-Mount mirrorless bodies via the R-Adapter L.