[Leica] Minor additional woe

[John McMaster]

The camera  (M(240)) has been on release for less than 30 months, a good battery should last that long....

john

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard Man
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2015 11:14 a.m.
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Minor additional woe

Well, it could always be possible that the battery they give you is not a new one.... rather than checking for particular battery characteristics, it may just check for the manufacturing date.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> As soon as I installed the new firmware in my M, the “info” button 
> produced, in additional to the standard information, an ominous 
> message in
> red: “Check battery age”.
>
> I called Leica tech support, my theory, in view of the expired 
> firmware, being that they sent me a camera that had been sitting a 
> long time on the shelf. But the tech guy said that the M (240) had not 
> been in existence long enough for a battery to elicit that message. (I 
> wonder that what battery characteristic the firmware is measuring). So 
> he is fielding my complaint to the marketing people and I await a phone call.
>
> Herb
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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