[Leica] A cautionary tale

[Jim Nichols]

Congratulations!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/24/2014 2:36 AM, Herbert Kanner 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".
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
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