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Subject: [Leica] A German CL?
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon May 30 11:10:32 2005

I am holding out some hope that Cosina will make a CLE-sized R3A Bessa
with the autoexposure of the their new R3A. That, with the new 40/1.4
Nokton would be very nice. But what would be nicest is a digital R2A or
R3A. 

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas
Sharp
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 12:27 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] A German CL?




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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