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Sure I read a few reviews before laying down the cash but thought that people were exaggerating with their complaints. Reality came back to hit me hard in the face when I started shooting with the CM and I sold it after shooting only one roll. Unfortunately, the bromance didn’t last long enough to reach the honeymoon phase. Unlike the cheaper plasticky Leica, this one is made of titanium in Germany, by Leica themselves, with the build quality you can expect from a “real” Leica. Directly inspired by the M series, I challenge you to remain indifferent to this camera. When I saw the Leica CM for the first time it was an instant crush for this perfectly designed compact camera.
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One curiosity with this camera is Minolta who tried to push the automation one step further with a somewhat annoying featured called “auto-zoom”. Anyway the lens seems to perform best at 40mm so let’s pretend that’s just a fixed lens and take it for what it’s good for. But like most entry level zooms the maximum aperture suffers, especially with an impractical f/7.7 when zoomed all the way to 90mm. This one comes with a real zoom lens going from 40 to 90mm (38-90mm for the Minolta). Do not confuse with the completely different Leica C2 launched a decade later. The Leica C2 Zoom is also another Minolta copycat of the Riva Zoom 90c.
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They both share a smart feature on their lens that lets you choose between a respectable 40mm f/2.8 or and a less popular 80mm f/5.6. This camera is based on a cheaper Minolta AF-Tele Super launched one year earlier in 1988. The Leica AF-C1 was their first attempt into the point and shoot world.