On 2/10/06, Juan Buhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Via the streetphoto list-- this one is for Frank: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/umdiaumafoto/24763474/in/photostream/ > > HCB in 1981 (allegedly.) Holding a Minolta CLE. Frank, isn't that > what you shoot with?
No, I shoot with a Leica CL - the body looks very similar to the CLE, and it's made by Minolta for Leica. Both bodies have m-mount. The Leica is mechanical with a match-needle meter, while the CLE has an aperture-priority fully-electronic shutter (with manual override). I've seen a photo of HCB later in his life (around the same time period as this photo) with a Leica CL, but this is the first time I've seen him with a CLE. Even though the two bodies look almost identical, this is clearly a CLE, as the shutter dial is on the top of the body, where on the CL it's on the front. Great pic! Thanks for posting it. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
