Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: 90 mm lenses and flar and the CL
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Sun May 29 13:21:59 2005
References: <ce.6978187c.2fcb5ab0@aol.com>

Nope, the Minolta/Leitz CL lenses were virtually identical but the  
CLE lenses were multicoated and used a differential focusing cam just  
like the Ms.

John Collier

On 29-May-05, at 11:49 AM, Summicron1@aol.com wrote:

> the minolta CLE and CL versions perform similarly?
>
> this is nor surprising because they are one and the same -- made in
> Deutschland by E. Leitz, both of them, the CLE version was just  
> rebranded, different
> front ring meant lower price, too -- check the rear cam constrctions.

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