[Leica] Sensor corrosion?

[Nathan Wajsman]

All I know is that I keep hearing about cameras having to take trips to Solms for repairs. And when I look at my own experience over the years, I have never had to send my Canon, Ricoh, Panasonic, Pentax or Fuji cameras for repair. The only film camera I have had that has needed repair was my M7, and the only digital camera I have owned that needed repair was my M8.

I was thinking the other day that Leica cameras are a bit like the BMW company car I had in Belgium in 1998-2000: off all the cars in my life, it was the one I enjoyed driving the most, but it was also the one that left me stranded at the side of the road more than any other car I have had (with a possible tie with the crappy Chrysler car I had in the US in the 1980s).

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 26 Sep 2015, at 06:47, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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???
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> On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 at 6:20 am Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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>> Nathan Wajsman
>> 
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
>> 
>> YNWA
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>>> On 26 Sep 2015, at 00:09, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>> 
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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..
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>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Chiaroscuro/Misc/SensorCorrosion.png
>>>>> .html
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>>>>> john
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