[Leica] Sensor corrosion?

[Geoff Hopkinson]

Never buy any digital cameral again then Nathan because all of them can
fail!
I think that Sony, Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Fujifilm have had (different)
fails too requiring rectification programs/firmware
fixes/workarounds/operating limitations.
I don't know the failure incidence rates but Leica Camera sold 10s of
thousands of the M9. They have gone to development and production of new
custom sensors for replacing faulty ones in the M9 now and soon for the
Monochrom.
I have recently got the excellent XT1 as well to learn as I think I
mentioned this trip. I have seen three of them fail (hotshot for studio
wireless trigger operation) at home during workshops.

But I don't know why you would avoid the M excepting price as always? A
handful of the earliest had potentially insecure strap lugs. There haven't
been any other rectification programs that I can recall? What are the
reliability issues that you mentioned???

On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 at 6:20 am Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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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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