Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Vince, The organization is arbitrary so you are welcome to change it. It's a wiki. :) As for the CL, there was a Leica and a Minolta version, no? The CLE was Minolta only I think. Regards, Spencer On Mar 17, 2010, at 18:43, Vince Passaro wrote: > This is probably dumb but I have an organization-of-the-site question. You > list the "CL" under "Almost Leica" but it was a Leica camera by name and > had > Leica's logo on it and the name Leica on the front and Leica produced its > lenses. The camera was manufactured by Minolta and Minolta marketed a > version called LeitzMinolta, with its own Rokkor versions of the two lenses > (introducing a third with the CLE later). But I believe Leica partnered in > the camera design and the camera was sold at its stores and by its > authorized dealers as a Leica (unlike the Leitz/Minolta or the later CLE, I > admit). > > Perhaps because I'm such a CL fan, may I open the question of the placement > of the CL under the honorable but not quite glorious category "Almost"? > Indeed, doesn't the legend go that the CL did so well it killed the sales > of > the new M5?