Leica CL vs X-E4

Giuloco wrote:

Thanks for sharing your experience with both the xe3 and CL. Please, how does the autofocus compare between these two cameras?

I'm not the most demanding autofocus user, typically shooting with single-point AF-S.  I don't shoot fast action or sports, just street for the most part.  And I'm much more familiar with the CL than the X-E3, as the CL was my primary shooter for a year, and the X-E3 was very lightly used.  But I would say that they both had pretty similar autofocus performance, both being contrast-based systems of probably the same generation.  Both cameras seemed to have very accurate and reasonably fast AF systems, but I pretty much never used continuous AF or face/eye detection modes (I don't even know if either of these cameras offer those modes, TBH).  I guess bottom line is, at least based on AF-S performance, neither camera jumps out at me as being clearly superior - but I never did head-to-head test or anything.

I will say that if I had started with a Fuji X-E3 or X-E4 and never gotten into the Leica, I probably would've been just as happy, and mostly gotten the same images that I captured with the CL.  I think the X-E cameras in general represent great value, they're styled nicely, offer great traditional manual control - I don't think you should feel like you're "settling" if you end up with one of these cameras.  One of my biggest gripes with the X-E3 was that the viewfinder magnification of 0.62x felt much smaller than the CL's 0.74x.  But it's still very useable - I have a PEN-F that also has a 0.62x EVF, you get used to it.