Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All I know is that I keep hearing about cameras having to take trips to Solms for repairs. And when I look at my own experience over the years, I have never had to send my Canon, Ricoh, Panasonic, Pentax or Fuji cameras for repair. The only film camera I have had that has needed repair was my M7, and the only digital camera I have owned that needed repair was my M8. I was thinking the other day that Leica cameras are a bit like the BMW company car I had in Belgium in 1998-2000: off all the cars in my life, it was the one I enjoyed driving the most, but it was also the one that left me stranded at the side of the road more than any other car I have had (with a possible tie with the crappy Chrysler car I had in the US in the 1980s). Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 26 Sep 2015, at 06:47, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > > Never buy any digital cameral again then Nathan because all of them can > fail! > I think that Sony, Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Fujifilm have had (different) > fails too requiring rectification programs/firmware > fixes/workarounds/operating limitations. > I don't know the failure incidence rates but Leica Camera sold 10s of > thousands of the M9. They have gone to development and production of new > custom sensors for replacing faulty ones in the M9 now and soon for the > Monochrom. > I have recently got the excellent XT1 as well to learn as I think I > mentioned this trip. I have seen three of them fail (hotshot for studio > wireless trigger operation) at home during workshops. > > But I don't know why you would avoid the M excepting price as always? A > handful of the earliest had potentially insecure strap lugs. There haven't > been any other rectification programs that I can recall? What are the > reliability issues that you mentioned??? > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 at 6:20 am Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> This effectively means that I will most likely never buy a Leica body >> again :-( >> The new ones are priced out of my range, and given these reliability >> issues, a second-hand M9 or M240 are too much of a crap shoot. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 00:09, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote: >>> >>> Uh huh, so you have not read about the Leica/Kodak issues? Or have you >> seen >>> dust on the sensor that looks this? I haven't..... >>> >>> john >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of >>> Mark Rabiner >>> Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 9:46 p.m. >>> To: Leica Users Group >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sensor corrosion? >>> >>> Looks like someone sneezed when you were changing lenses. >>> My snot on sensor issues seems to have vanisish with my last camera which >>> had a sensor vibrate thing built into it which vibrates everything off >> when >>> you turn the camera on or off and really does a heck of a job. I have a >>> totally clean sensor on a five year old camera. Yet I'm doing a whole lot >>> more lens changing now actually carrying a second lens with me all day >> and >>> eschewing zooms for 1.8 primes. >>> >>> >>> On 9/25/15 3:06 PM, "Leland Deane" <leland.deane at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I agree it's sensor disease. It hit my M9 (now gone) and it has just >>>> hit my Monochrome (about to be sent it for sensor replacement) >>>> >>>> Leland >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> John yes I agree it looks like the corrosion issue. There are sample >>>> issues somewhere in Leica Camera's official response if you wanted to >>>> search those out. Were it mine I would be contacting for a repair >> booking >>> for sure. >>>> >>>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 at 7:57 pm John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> To those who have had affected sensors, does this look like sensor >>>>> corrosion? These are screen grabs of 100% image and it does not look >>>>> like dust or similar.. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Misc/SensorCorrosion.png >>>>> .html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> john >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information