Very nice, Wilko, to hve these old Pentax'es. I never had one older than a K1000 (I was stupid enoug to sell my fine sample). Actually the CL was designed by Leitz, but made by Minolta 1973-76. Rumours has it, that the CL was dicontinued, because it was a huge success! The sales of German made Leica's (M4 - I guess) took a dive because of the competition from the CL. The CL was initially introduced to provide an afforable student's camera - and to make up for the increasingly lower sales figures for M-Leicas, naturally. Later Minolta made a up-dated version - the Minolta CLE, featuring AE and an electronic shutter. The CL will work without a battery. The CLE won't.
But I want a camera to carry with me all the time. Not a digital one, because this will probably be out of batttery, when I really need it :-) I believe the Leica CL is a nice choice for this purpose. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157600033344431/show/ The oldest Pentax I own also has a cut-away corner - the P50. Very nice camera, but - as oppsed to the even older model "Super A" - it is missing the TTL-flash and manually adjustable film speed. I sold most of my Pentax'es to finance my *ist D. I am not really a camera collector (even thoug I gues I own more than 25 cameras). I just want cameras, that I am actually using. Hopefully I will be using the Leica. If not, I'm going to have to let it go :-) Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Wilko Bulte Sendt: 28. marts 2007 23:51 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: OT: Enablement On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:56:33PM +0200, Jens Bladt wrote.. > Got my self a rather nice Leica CL today. Along with a 40mm, 90mm and 135mm > M-lenses. > It's SMALL!! And it seems to work rather well - after thirty-something > years! Of course it does, it is a Leica ;) Mind you, my Pentax SV, S1a, SP and SP1000 also "just worked" once I gently gave their shutters a workout. Waiting anxiously for a Pentax K to arrive, that will be the oldest one of the whole collection for now. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/437903488/ > > The 135mm has it's own hot-shoe view finder with parallaxe correktion. > I don't suspect I'll ever use the 135mm at all. Nice toy! Wilko -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.20/736 - Release Date: 03/27/2007 16:38 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.20/736 - Release Date: 03/27/2007 16:38 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
