[Leica] M8 problems

Sun Nov 15 15:03:17 PST 2015

I always shot with 2Gb cards in the M8, and still have 6 or so around for it for the IR I now shoot with it.

Henning Wulff
hjwulff at gmail.com

On 2015-11-15, at 2:09 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> WIBD!
> 
> All those who insisted that the problem is most likely an SD card incompatibility were right. I put in an old 1 GB card and the M8 is perfectly happy. Hate to think though that I’m forever limited to 1 or 2 GB, despite the fact that Leica’s current tech specs say that it’ll accommodate up to 32 GB, but I suppose any one photo session is unlikely to exceed these capacities. Hope I can still find a 2 GB card—I may have tossed out my other old low-capacity ones as not worth keeping!
> 
> —howard
> 
> 
>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:27 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Neither a new 32GB card nor having the battery removed overnight fixed things. Since I’m not sure that I successfully used the 8GB card in the M8 in the past, now I’ll try to find an old 2 GB card and try that.
>> 
>> —howard
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We could argue all day long. If you have an old 2gb card, try it. 
>>> 
>>> The real issue is to tell if the problem is a card issue or a body issue. 
>>> 
>>> My real suspicion is that it is a card issue.  You could take the card and do a low level format (special SW required, which is free, but who wants to bother).  It is most likely something on the card that got scrambled. It is just so much easier to throw the card away and get on with life.....with a new card.
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>> 
>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:51 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> mine works fine with 8 and 16
>>> 
>>> ric
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The M8 will not work with any 8Gb card. It will work with (very few, specific) 4Gb cards, and almost all 2Gb cards. But not 8Gb cards.
>>>> 
>>>> Henning Wulff
>>>> hjwulff at gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2015-11-14, at 8:23 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It’s an old 8 GB, which I *think* I’ve used with the M8 before, but I’m not sure. In any case, I’ll buy and try a new one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> —howard
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 7:52 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What size card?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But the other advice... Try another card... Are definitely first to try.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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: “SD-Card full”. But it isn’t, not nearly. When I push the PLAY button, it tells me: “No valid image to play”. But there are images. (The card is read normally, and its images displayed, by the M240.) When I press the M8’s MENU button, the menu is displayed normally. But when I select Format SD-Card, it will not reformat the card—it doesn’t progress beyond the “Do you want to format the SD-Card?” 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 it’s put back into the M8, and the M8 gives the same notices when I try the M240’s SD card in it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> When I try to install the current firmware update that’s been downloaded onto the SD card, again the M8 reports “SD-Card full”.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (By the way, all you M8 users: Contrary to Leica’s 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. It’s 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 that’s already been shared, but I haven’t updated my M8 in years.) The instructions for the M240 are different, and the update file for it is a .fw file that likewise isn’t 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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