Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/21

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Subject: [Leica] re: M5 meter arm
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Fri May 21 17:48:20 2004

I shall hold out for the mini-Hexar RF, should it ever materialize, or
the mini-Bessa-R2 should IT ever materialize.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Alastair Firkin
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 7:47 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] re: M5 meter arm

the CLE did not have the meter arm, using a dotted pattern on the 
shutter curtain: I loved mine, but Minolta will not service it and 
there are part on it that will wear out and "die", so I traded in 
before it did. It was a sad day, I had the full CLE kit including the 
dinky leather hand  bag, but it had become unreliable and hard to 
service: about the only camera I've ever been able to part with and 
strangely one of my most loved
On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 01:58 Australia/Melbourne, Jeffery Smith 
wrote:

> If that can be verified (that the CLE doesn't use the same meter as 
> the CL), someone let me know. I hated giving up the CL, but the 
> metering on it drove me nuts. A CLE would still be nice if Konica 
> doesn't pan out regarding rumors of a pint-sized M camera.
>
> Jeffery
>
> At 09:49 AM 5/21/2004, you wrote:
>> Rich <photovilla@aol.com> writes:
>> > The M5 meter arm is similar to the CL/CLE, but not exactly the
same.
>> >
>> > It will only come up when a lens is on the camera.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think the CLE had a meter arm 
>> at all.
>> >From my memory, the CLE used light bouncing off the shutter curtain 
>> to
>> determine exposure.  The shutter curtain had a funny speckled pattern
>> imprinted on it that would cause the read exposure to be a center 
>> weighted
>> average of the scene.
>>
>> My Leitz-Minolta CL's meter arm has never had any problems (knock on 
>> wood!)
>>
>>                        --Jim Dempsey--
>>                          jjd@jjd.com
>>                        http://jjd.com/
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In reply to: Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] re: M5 meter arm)