Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rich <photovilla@aol.com> writes:
> The M5 meter arm is similar to the CL/CLE, but not exactly the same.
>
> It will only come up when a lens is on the camera.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think the CLE had a meter arm at all.
>From my memory, the CLE used light bouncing off the shutter curtain to
determine exposure. The shutter curtain had a funny speckled pattern
imprinted on it that would cause the read exposure to be a center weighted
average of the scene.
My Leitz-Minolta CL's meter arm has never had any problems (knock on wood!)
--Jim Dempsey--
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