[Leica] Yasuhara Reccieved Quick Review--why buy one?

[langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer)]

As I understand it, Olympus licensed the metering system from Minolta.
 I have an OM-2 that I bought when they first came out, and at the
time, thought that Olympus had developed this metering system.

On 6/24/05, Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> wrote:
> the CLE had concentric electrical contacts on the shutter release that
> turned the meter on from the conductivity of your finger touched it.
> it think a slight pressure also worked if you were wearing gloves.
> the X700 and their other SLR line of the time had the same release type.
> the CLE also used the same TTL as the X line.
> 
> interestingly, the CLE used a metring system similar to the Olympus OM2
> which read light exposure reflected off the film (or front shutter at high
> shutter speeds).
> 
> the CLE sort of threw together a bunch of novel features into one
> camera.  it was my first "M" body.
> 
> -rei
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