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

[Sonny Carter]

I don't know how they do in Leica, but Sony Tough sd cards are bulletproof.

Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
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USA


On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 10:26 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:

> Surprised they lasted this long, I only had my M9 a few months before I
> had to move to Transcend cards from Sandisk....
>
> john
>
> On 04/06/2022, 21:28, "LUG on behalf of Frank Filippone via LUG"
> <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of
> 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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