Overview
- Leica announced the SL3‑P and began selling it in Leica Stores on Thursday, June 25, 2026 for €5,990 for the body with kits starting higher.
- The camera uses a new 44‑megapixel backside‑illuminated full‑frame sensor that Leica says delivers up to 14 stops of dynamic range and a multishot mode that combines frames to produce images up to 176MP.
- Autofocus is a hybrid system with 819 focus points that blends phase detection, contrast detection and depth‑map data and supports continuous burst shooting at up to 40 frames per second.
- Video features target professional workflows with 8K Open Gate capture, 5.9K/60p, 4K/120p slow motion, Apple ProRes recording to CFexpress cards, RAW output over HDMI and direct Frame.io cloud integration.
- The SL3‑P is built in Germany with an all‑metal, IP54‑rated body, uses the L‑Mount lens bayonet, adds Content‑Credentials metadata for provenance, and will be joined by two new SL lenses due late 2026 with published prices.