[Leica] A cautionary tale

[Richard Man]

Hi Herb, it's almost certainly just the SD card gone "bad." Once every few
months, do the slow format in camera to make sure the card is OK. They do
die completely after a few years.


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Yesterday my M9 went nuts. First it claimed that my SD card was full when
> in fact it only had about a dozen shots on it. Then it recanted, but when I
> tried to delete a trial shot of the wall that I took just after it
> recovered, I saw that I had no choice but to delete all. I was impossible
> to  switch to "delete single".
>
> After uploading the contents of the SD card to LR, I put it back in the
> camera and tried to delete all. It went through the motions, showing a
> moving progress bar, but when it was done, none of the shots had actually
> been deleted.
>
> Because I probably would not see the camera again for several months after
> sending it to Leica, I ordered a X100S to tide me over. I've had a secret
> yen for this camera as a carry around always camera for some time.
>
> Now, I've been a computer software guy since 1958, but somehow, I just
> hadn't thought of a digital camera as a computer. This very afternoon, it
> occurred to me that maybe the firmware had gone south. I downloaded the
> firmware from the Leica site--it took a while to find it there. Actually, if
> I had looked at the file of downloads on my computer, I would have found
> the copy that was downloaded in 2i012. I reformatted the SD card in the
> camera (it was willing to do that much) and reinstalled the firmware as
> instructed in the M9 manual. The camera appears to be cured.
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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