Leica CL
date: label: date made
content: 1970s
name: label: maker
content: Leica
label: maker
content: Minolta
notes: label: Description
content: The Leica CL was designed by Leitz but made by Minolta and was first sold in 1973. CL stands for ‘Compact Leica’ and the camera is smaller than any other film Leica models. The shutter differs from other Leica models in that it travels vertically rather than horizontally. The CL was usually sold with two lenses, a 40mm and a 90mm. Poor sales caused the camera to be dropped by Leitz in 1976, although a version with auto-exposure was introduced in 1980 and sold by Minolta for several more years as the Minolta CLE.
label: Description
content: Black Leica CL camera without lens. Imprinted writing on top of camera reads "Leitz Wetzlar". This camera was used by the donor to make his 1978 Pulitzer Prize winning photographs of Rhodesia during the late 1970s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Solms
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0231.55
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0231.55
label: accession number
content: 2010.0231
label: serial number
content: 1318706
objectType: label: Object Name
content: camera02
label: Object Name
content: camera
label: Object Name
content: Camera
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/16 in x 5 in x 1 1/2 in; 8.382 cm x 12.7 cm x 3.81 cm