Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Erik, the evil gnomes are out and about. Happened to me a first, yesterday afternoon. I went to the last big Saratoga Polo championship match of the summer season at Whitney Field. For simplicity's sake I took only my M6 and 35/2,8 Summaron. Went early and walked over to the vans where the grooms were saddling and wrapping boots on the ponies' legs. Lifted M6 to my eye and half-pressed shutter release for exposure and, voila!, no red triangles!!! Having had a bad experience many years ago when a leaky battery messed up a meter, I always remove the battery when a camera or meter is not going to be used for a while. When taking out such a camera or meter, I always check to install a fresh battery. Until yesterday. We'll see how accurate my exposure guesswork is. The other bad news is that film was Kodachrome. No latitude. Dummy me. Seth LaK 9 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik van der Meulen" <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 4:59 AM Subject: [Leica] Unreliable M6TTL electronics > Dear Group - > > My M6TTL is giving me a bit of a headache lately. The problem is this; my light > meter occasionally refuses to operate! It is a strange thing, particularly when it > has been switched off and stored for a little while, it will occasionally not light > up when I want to shoot. After some time of trying, fiddling with the batteries, > praying and swearing, it might just decide to work again. I have also experienced a > situation where it would come on after pressing the release button for about 10 > seconds... > Once it is back to working, I can usually use it without a problem for the rest of > the day. > > I have done the obvious like: getting fresh cells, cleaning all contacts, bending > the inside contact which puts pressure on the batteries and all. I am beginning to > get the feeling that this is not a 'bad contact' issue, but that my electronics are > flaky. Wondering is anyone has experienced similar behaviour and maybe even some > hints about possible causes/solutions. > > In the mean time I have found the excuse to go and get me a Digisix. Have wanted to > play with that for some time anyway ;-) > > Regards. > > Erik > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html