[Leica] M9 failure -- anyone else have this experience?

[Adam Bridge]

When I read about a failure mode like this I think about two things: heat and a loose connection somewhere.

Was your M9 being heavily used and perhaps put down in the field of a hot spot-light? Did you move it somewhere cool or cooler so the whole body could cool down and then it would start working again.

The possibility of a loose connection is there but you’d have to ask if the camera was subject to a short, sharp shock or something although why it would come back is another issue.

Did you happen to pop the battery out as your trouble-shot the problem? I can imagine being all ready to go and having your camera suddenly fail wouldn’t lead to a thoughtful point by point bit of troubleshooting. But I’d think that popping out the battery, turning the camera ON and maybe hitting the shutter to deplete any energy that might be stored in the system and then returning the battery and restarting would have been what I’d have done fairly quickly. That and doing a “bounce test” by throwing the damned thing on the concrete floor a few times. Oh, wait, I’d NEVER do that nor even think it.

I’d definitely send it to Leica. This kind of betrayal suggests an intervention as soon as possible.

Adam


> On Sep 4, 2015, at 7:34 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Big top sekrit photo shoot last week at the New York Public Library. They gave the library gave me lots of space to set up a studio before a performance art piece out on the steps. It was six hours of setting up the studio then waiting and the very second it was time to go, my M9 konked out, just a bunch of vertical lines on the display. I had a d800 with me because I had a fisheye for it which I was planning to use outside and I was able to slap a 28-70 on that and keep going but I’m wondering if anybody else has experienced this? 
> 
> Later it started working again and I was able to use it outside but I’m wondering is this is a known thing that can be serviced or if it’s just “oh well, who knows…."
> 
> Possibly NSFW if topless women are NSFW wherever you are.
> 
> My behind the scenes:
> http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/818224.html
> 
> the Big Blog Post about the entire thing with an awesome time lapse movie:
> http://amandapalmer.net/truth-and-consequences/
> 
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