Minolta Camera Co. Ltd, Japan, 1970's. Rangefinder camera, 24x36mm, Leica M-bayonet, with body cap.
The Leitz Minolta CLE (Compact LEICA Electronic) is a manual and automatic exposure, manual focus rangefinder camera that is an important part of the LEICA system.The CLE is the world's first LEICA M camera with TTL automatic exposure.The CLE is super lightweight: only 13.405 oz. (380.1g), or about 2/3 the weight of other Leicas.Back when the CLE was introduced I ignored it because it lacked, at least on paper, AE lock and manual metering. 29 years later when I finally bought one, I realized that you get AE lock and manual metering by looking at the display in Auto mode, and then transferring that to the shutter dial. Duh; its easy.it is very easy to shoot and gets great results.