[Leica] Sensor corrosion?

[Nathan Wajsman]

This effectively means that I will most likely never buy a Leica body again :-( 
The new ones are priced out of my range, and given these reliability issues, a second-hand M9 or M240 are too much of a crap shoot. 

Cheers,
Nathan
 
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> On 26 Sep 2015, at 00:09, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
> 
> Uh huh, so you have not read about the Leica/Kodak issues? Or have you seen
> dust on the sensor that looks this? I haven't.....
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Rabiner
> Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 9:46 p.m.
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sensor corrosion?
> 
> Looks like someone sneezed when you were changing lenses.
> My snot on sensor issues seems to have vanisish with my last camera which
> had a sensor vibrate thing  built into it which vibrates everything off when
> you turn the camera on or off and really does a heck of a job. I have a
> totally clean sensor on a five year old camera. Yet I'm doing a whole lot
> more lens changing now actually carrying a second lens with me all day and
> eschewing zooms for 1.8 primes.
> 
> 
> On 9/25/15 3:06 PM, "Leland Deane" <leland.deane at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I agree it's sensor disease. It hit my M9 (now gone) and it has just 
>> hit my Monochrome (about to be sent it for sensor replacement)
>> 
>> Leland
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> John yes I agree it looks like the corrosion issue. There are sample 
>> issues somewhere in Leica Camera's official response if you wanted to 
>> search those out. Were it mine I would be contacting for a repair booking
> for sure.
>> 
>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 at 7:57 pm John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> To those who have had affected sensors, does this look like sensor 
>>> corrosion? These are screen grabs of 100% image and it does not look 
>>> like dust or similar..
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Misc/SensorCorrosion.png
>>> .html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> john
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 
> 
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