[Leica] [Leica} Had a camera scare today......

[Wayne Torry]

Another reason to cling to an M5, Konica I, Pentax 6x7, Hasselblad and a
bushel of film.
Wayne

On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 16:28 Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

>
> My precious Monochrom ( M9 Based Digi-Leica) would not accept a memory
> card.  Just kept telling me that there was no SD card installed.
>
>
> I tried a bunch of other cards.  No luck.  At this point I saw a BIG
> repair bill coming my way.....
>
> Did a Google search of ... Leica M9 SD Card Problems.... All the articles
> were old ( well, what do you expect given the camera is old?)
>
> Three solutions were offered at that time...... a) contacts on camera or
> card were "dirty".... Clean them b) Bad memory card or card reader in the
> camera ( what I feared) and finally, c) In the beginning of the M9, there
> were some issues with certain cards not working.... Leica chimed in and
> said
> they knew about the problem, towards a fix.
>
> The cards were mostly Sandisk....
>
>
> Well, the cards I was trying were all Sandisk, Extreme Pro.... I had 64GB,
> 32GB, 128GB..... none had worked.
>
> I did have a pair of Transcend 32GB cards..... tried one and it worked
> perfectly.
>
> The message to leave everyone with.... if your camera acts up,, Google the
> problem... and follow the solutions offered.
>
> I would have expected Leica to fix the incompatibility years ago, but
> nope.....
>
>
> What did we do before the Internet?
>
>
> B+W anyone?
>
>
> Frank Filippone
>
>
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