On 8/6/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > The meter arm and shutter [on the Leica CL] are known points of fragility, as > is the > meter readout in the viewfinder.<snip>
Agreed. As I said in my last post, I've read two lines of thought WRT those problems. First is that the samples with those problems tended to experience those problems rather early, and were either repaired at that time when (sturdier) parts may have been available, or they were "put out to pasture" at that time, or their use continued without metering capability. The other theory that I heard is that all 65,000 (aprox) CL's that were made were made in two runs: IIRC, one run in 1973, and one in 1976. The weaknesses of the earlier run were improved upon, so those later cameras tended to have a longer life span (at least WRT the weak meter assemblies and shutters) than those from the early run. Admittedly this is pretty much hearsay and rumour and I don't attest to it's accuracy, I simply put it forth for consideration. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
