Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my first M mount was a CLE, a NOS example from bergen county camera. i liked it very much. but when i eventually "downgraded" to an M6, i was hooked by the fluid mechanical shutter, the ratcheted film advance, the heft and solidity of the M. the CLE's shutter seemed to crack when it went off, and the electronic "touch" sensor for metering always felt a little iffy. and that old M6 was itself outdone by the MP. as to the CLE's metering, i can't explain why they shut it off in manual mode. a lot of the other cameras of the time (even the minolta SLRs i think) used an LED version of match needle, where the light level triggered one number as solid red and your setting was another LED which blinked, or vice versa. or like the F3, they gave you a plus and minus indicator. the CLE's book's suggestion of switching from "A" to your shutter speed was not a helpful one, but acknowledged that someone figured out that meterless manual demanded some sort of explanation. -rei On May21 22:54, 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 -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey