Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/11
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...or an almost dead battery that shows only one side of the meter diodes.
I know I thought my meter was broke when this happened to me.
Steve
At 11:07 PM 3/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 09:14 PM 11-03-98 -0500, you wrote:
>>This could also have been a bad battery caused by leaving the shutter speed
>>dial in other than B with something have partially pressed down on the dial
>>while in your camera bag to cause a drain on the battery. The symptoms this
>>event exhibits are essentially the same as you describe. It is easy to have
>>happen as this is a common storage problem and one wouldn't expect the
>>battery to be mostly dead after just 10-rolls of film. Their explanation
>>might just be a face-saving measure and their way of saying, "the battery
>>was dead, we replaced it." Just a thought.
>>
>That could happen only if you leave the camera with the shutter cocked.
>And if something is pressing down on the shutter release in the camera bag
>with the shutter cocked, there's a good chance you will end up with a
>picture of the inside of your camera bag. ;-)
>
>Dan C.
>
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