[Leica] Sensor corrosion?

[Tina Manley]

After 40 years of using Leicas, with brief excursions into Canon and Fuji,
I can say that I will buy whatever Leica comes out with and not regret it.
I used to send my M6s in for CLA after every major trip.  It's just a part
of regular maintenance for film cameras.  I have regretted every Leica
camera and every Leica lens that I have ever sold.  I gave away the Canons
and Fujis and had no regrets.  Leica is the best mechanically.  They are
getting there with digital but it's been a steep learning curve.  I'm still
happy with my 2 M8s, M9, M240 and Monochrome.  I still prefer the
Kodachromes from 40 years ago that I'm still scanning but digital is close
and so much more convenient.  At least they are replacing the affected
sensors at no charge. And I can still use my 40 year old lenses on my
newest digital cameras with no adapters.

Tina

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:20 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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