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

[Peter Klein]

This could have been a defect or a slowly failing electronic component, but
it could just as easily have been a rarely-triggered software bug.  What
Adam said about pulling the battery is right on--that's just Ctrl-Alt-Del
for digital Leicas (all digital cameras, actually).  You could send it in,
or you could simply see if it happens again. My M8 has "frozen" a few times
since I bought it in 2007. Usually when I had it set to Discrete shutter
and tried to take a few continuous exposures, but a couple times right out
of the blue. Since others have encountered the same problem, and pulling
the battery always got it back up and running, I just chalked it up to
"Stuff happens."

If it were me, I would just use the camera regularly and if it didn't
happen again, I would forget about it.  If it did, I would reload the
firmware. Only if it happened again after that would I send it in to Leica.
I would also try to correlate if temperature had anything to do with it
happening.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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