[Leica] M8 problems

Sat Nov 14 23:39:28 PST 2015

Every year or two or three when it seems for some odd reason like its time
for me to get a new memory card I usually move up to a card twice the size
and it cost half the money and it works twice as fast.
So with the exception of obsessing over which card to get its a pretty happy
experience as my camera seems much happier afterward on all accounts. Its
the next  best thing to getting a new camera.
So just get a new card.  Maybe a better one. Maybe a bigger one. Maybe a
faster one.
But instead of paying less money as they have gotten way cheaper. Pay the
same or a bit more.
Its easy to talk yourself into thinking your pictures are looking better as
result.

On 11/14/15 11:06 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> I did, but only long enough to stop the M8¹s fruitless attempts to reformat
> the card. I¹ll try leaving it out overnight.

‹howard

> On Nov 14, 2015, at
> 5:57 PM, geneduprey2015 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Have you tried removing the
> battery then reinstalling it an the SD card?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On
> Nov 14, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I
> would try different cards.  My cards don't like to be switched between
>>
> cameras.  Get a new, unused one and try that.  It would be cheaper than
>>
> sending the camera off!
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:08 PM,
> Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think it¹s a card I¹ve used
> before in the M8. In any case, the M8 reads
>>> the M240¹s card just fine.
>>>
> 
>>> ‹howard
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 11:00 AM, chris williams
> <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm guessing you've tried a new or
> different card? My M8 never liked
>>> cards that my M9 used.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>
> 
>>>> Chris Williams
>>>> www.zoeicaimages.net
>>>> 504-231-6261
>>>> 
>>>>
> 
>>>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net>
> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I turn my M8 on, the first thing I see is the
> message: ³SD-Card
>>> full². But it isn¹t, not nearly. When I push the PLAY
> button, it tells me:
>>> ³No valid image to play². But there are images. (The
> card is read normally,
>>> and its images displayed, by the M240.) When I
> press the M8¹s MENU button,
>>> the menu is displayed normally. But when I
> select Format SD-Card, it will
>>> not reformat the card‹it doesn¹t progress
> beyond the ³Do you want to format
>>> the SD-Card?² screen when I push the Yes
> button. All that happens is the
>>> red light flashes rapidly. I have to
> remove the battery to get out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Reformatting the same card in the
> M240 proceeds normally, but the
>>> situation is the same when it¹s put back
> into the M8, and the M8 gives the
>>> same notices when I try the M240¹s SD
> card in it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I try to install the current firmware update
> that¹s been
>>> downloaded onto the SD card, again the M8 reports ³SD-Card
> full².
>>>>> 
>>>>> (By the way, all you M8 users: Contrary to Leica¹s online
> instructions,
>>> the M8 firmware update file is NOT a .zip file, and does not
> need to be
>>> decompressed into a .upd file that gets put onto your SD card.
> It¹s already
>>> a .upd file and only needs to be downloaded and transferred
> in its native
>>> state to your SD card. (Sorry if this is common knowledge
> that¹s already
>>> been shared, but I haven¹t updated my M8 in years.) The
> instructions for
>>> the M240 are different, and the update file for it is a
> .fw file that
>>> likewise isn¹t a compressed file, or at least not one that
> needs
>>> decompressing by the user.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any solution short of
> sending it on a trip to NJ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> ‹howard
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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