Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/30

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Subject: [Leica] A German CL?
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon May 30 10:27:30 2005
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Ed Kowaleski wrote:

> The Minolta CLE was not the same as the earlier CL.  The CLE had TTL 
> capability, electronic shutter, an electronic self-timer, and an 
> automatic exposure system.  It was the camera that perhaps Leica should 
> have made in the 80s but waited until the M7 to duplicate some of the 
> CLE's features.
Just not the best ones - OK you can also do manual metering with an M7. 
Difficult with a CLE, but probably my only niggle. I still find the CLE 
to be way ahead of any Leica developed since, they should have stuck at 
it -  a CLE-2 (various metering modes), CLE-3 (R9 Electronics) and of 
course we would have had a CLE-D years ago.
Douglas
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