Majki
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Thx guys🙂
Leica M2 or Minolta CLE as a 1st film camera
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Thx guys🙂
Majki
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kiemchacsu
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Oh yes they can make parts for Leica, good that you mentioned.
The guy in Saigon I met he cast the top plate of Leica M6 by brass to replace the zinc one.
retinax
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Ron Montad
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The M2 is more archetypal than the CLE. So if you’re wanting to own a cool object, then the choice is obvious.
Ron Montad
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Consider these:
Huss
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The answer is obvious. Agfa Optima 1535. Here with my lesser cameras..
filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
Why not go for a Voigtlander Bessa, like the R2 or R3a?
It's slightly more expensive then the CLE, but far more versital and has a built in meter to boot.
It's slightly more expensive then the CLE, but far more versital and has a built in meter to boot.
olifaunt
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The CLE also has a built-in meter as well as aperture mode auto-exposure like the Bessa. (Also, the CLE exposure lock workaround has been described above but I almost never need it; I almost always use AE possibly combined with exposure compensation on the CLE.) I'm sure the Bessas are good cameras (I almost bought one before I got a really good CLE with lens for cheaper than a Bessa body only) but its functionality seems more or less equivalent to the CLE's. Sure, the Bessa has faster shutter speeds, but the 1/1000 shutter of the CLE is fast enough for me to completely freeze mid-jump skateboarders, for example, which is fast enough for me.
Something that hasn't been discussed much but is important to me personally: The CLE is by no means a small/light camera. It is solid and large compared to a P&S, and (I think) heavier and larger than, say, the Fuji X100 series cameras, but fortunately for me it is just below the borderline of a pain in the neck to carry (literally, I get neck/shoulder pain). The Bessas are pretty huge, and would definitely cause my neck/shoulder to act up.
