Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] CLE - was M5
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Sep 25 19:21:51 2004

Minolta's excuse for the dead meter in manual was that anyone using 
manual would not be using the onboard meter anyway. It cut down on 
battery use, so I suppose there was some logic.

On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 06:54 Australia/Melbourne, Douglas M. 
Sharp wrote:

>
> Too right Karen, that's exactly what always annoyed me about the CLE, 
> otherwise it's a brilliant piece of equipment, light, perfect 
> automatic metering
> (particularly for long exposures, wonderful soft shutter release, SCA 
> dedicated flash. If they only rebuilt it with a couple of extra 
> metering modes and
> a couple of frames more in the VF/RF I wouldn't even think about a new 
> Leica body.
> Douglas
>
> Karen Nakamura schrieb:
>
>>
>> BUUUUUTTT..  The meter only works in AE mode. The meter inexplicably 
>> does not work for manual photography. It's effectively meter-less 
>> once you switch off AE. Otherwise, it'd have been a perfect camera.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>
>
>
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Alastair



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