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The Minolta CLE is a TTL-metering manual & automatic exposure aperture-priority 35 mm rangefinder camera using Leica M lenses, introduced by Minolta in 1980.
Leica Camera and Minolta signed a technical cooperation agreement in June 1972.Year and month: Francesch, p. 49. One of its results was the joint development of the Leica CL, a compact rangefinder camera introduced in 1973 and discontinued a few years later. The CLE was a new rangefinder body resembling the Leica CL.
The CLE has an electronic focal plane shutter to 1/1000 seconds, and a through-the-lens (TTL) silicon photodiode (SPD) exposure meter with aperture-priority automatic or manual exposure, and automated ambient and flash exposure metering system continuing to work and dynamically adjusting the shutter speed and TTL, off the film (OTF) flash during the exposure itself. The ambient metering worked in a very similar way to that employed by the then current Olympus OM-2n single-lens reflex camera(SLR) camera. Ambient light was measured by the SPD as it was reflected off a pattern on the shutter curtains. It also proved particularly useful if filters were being used. None of these features would appear on any other body for M-mount lenses until the Konica Hexar RF of 1999, which has all but TTL-OTF flash metering and dynamic exposure.
The earlier Leica CL 40 mm and 90 mm lenses had single Optical coating, and later Minolta CL-E versions of these two lenses, plus a 28 mm, were multi-coated, with the same optical scheme. The earlier Leica CLs did not have 28 mm frame-lines.
Construction 7 elements in 5 groups|| 6 elements in 4 groups | 4 elements in 4 groups
Angle of view 75°|| 57° | 27°
Coating Minolta Achromatic lens Min. focusing dist. Aperture scale 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22|| 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16 | 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22
Aperture Full and half-click stops Filter thread diameter 40.5 mm Dimensions (diameter × length) Weight
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