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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Maker | Minolta |
| Type | 35 mm rangefinder camera |
| Lens | |
| Lens mount | Leica M-mount |
| Focusing | |
| Focus | Manual |
| Exposure/metering | |
| Exposure | Manual + Automatic aperture priority |
| Exposure metering | TTL |
| Flash | |
| Flash | Fixed hot shoe, TTL contacts |
| General | |
| Battery | 2 A76 |
| Body features | Plastic and black metal chrome plating over plastic. |
| Dimensions | 124.5 mm × 77.5 mm × 32 mm (4.90 in × 3.05 in × 1.26 in) |
| Weight | 380.1 g (13.41 oz) |
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 and Minolta signed a technical cooperation agreement in June 1972.[1] 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 Minolta CLE is based on the Minolta XG-series SLRs. The viewfinder has projected frames for 28 mm, 40 mm and 90 mm focal lengths. It had a black finish, except for run of 300 gold-plated cameras sold in the Japanese market.[2][better source needed]
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.
Three of Minolta's Rokkor brand of lenses were made specially for the CLE: the M-Rokkor 28 mm f/2.8 wide-angle, the M-Rokkor (-QF) 40 mm f/2 standard, and the M-Rokkor 90 mm f/4 telephoto.
The earlier Leica CL 40 mm and 90 mm lenses had single coatings, and later Minolta CL-E versions of these two lenses, plus a 28 mm, were multi-coated, with the same optical scheme.[3] The earlier Leica CLs did not have 28 mm frame-lines.[3]
| Lens[4][vague] | 28 mm f/2.8 | 40 mm f/2 | 90 mm f/4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Min. focusing dist. | 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in) | 1 m (3 ft 3 in) | |
| 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) | 51 mm × 35.5 mm (2.01 in × 1.40 in) | 51 mm × 24.5 mm (2.01 in × 0.96 in) | 51 mm × 60 mm (2.0 in × 2.4 in) |
| Weight | 135 g (4.8 oz) | 105 g (3.7 oz) | 250 g (8.8 oz) |
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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 and Minolta signed a technical cooperation agreement in June 1972. 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.
Minolta Co., Ltd. (ミノルタ, Minoruta) was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, lenses, camera accessories, binoculars, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers. Minolta Co., Ltd., which is also known simply as Minolta, was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1928 as Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten (日独写真機商店; meaning Japanese-German camera shop). In 1931, the company adopted Minolta for their cameras, an acronym for the German phrase "Mechanismus, Instrumente, Optik, und Linsen von Tashima". Between 1937 and 1962 they became known as Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō K.K. (千代田光学精工㈱, meaning Chiyoda Optics and Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) before adopting the Minolta name as their final company iteration. The Minolta 'Rising Sun' logo was designed by Saul Bass in 1981. Minolta made the first integrated autofocus 35mm SLR camera system with the Alpha α/Maxxum 7000/AF in 1985. In 2003, Minolta merged with Konica to form Konica Minolta. On 19 January 2006, Konica Minolta announced that it was leaving the camera and photo business, and that it would sell a portion of its SLR camera business to Sony as part of its move to pull completely out of the business of selling cameras and photographic film. Between 2015 and 2016, Konica Minolta lost the rights to the Minolta US trademark for photographic equipment in a trial against JMM Lee Properties LLC, citing Trademark abandonment. Assuming control of several Minolta Trademarks in photographic industries by 2017, JMM Lee began licensing the name to Elite Brands Inc. This is an example of zombie trademarking.
The Minolta X-1 (XK in North America, XM in Europe and elsewhere) was the professional model in the Minolta SR-mount line of single-lens reflex cameras (SLR), released in 1972 after ten years of development, which was the first X-series camera in the Minolta SLR system; prior to the X-1, specific Minolta SLR models were branded SR-T, and afterward, they included X in the name. The X-1 was the first SLR to combine an electronically controlled shutter with interchangeable viewfinders.
List of products manufactured by electronics company Minolta.
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