Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg: Yes, some of the earlier R8's have a static problem. Send it to Leica and they will update it with some new static sheilding. Regards, Robert At 01:28 PM 6/18/99 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, This is the first time I subscribe to the LUG. > >I bought recently with a friend (hello Gilles) a second hand Leica R8, with >a 50 summicron, then after a while, I bought a summicron 90, all second >hand. The optics are really great. > >I just had a syncop when, a day, without any advice, the little led screen >on the back of the camera displayed just after loading a film unrecognizable >pattern, I then open, then close, then open again the camera, advance the >film, and all was ok. I read carefully the notice, and it seems that the >camera is very electrostatic-sensitive. I wonder if this odd pattern >displayed by the led is just the effect of touching the contacts between >body and back, so making false contact, or static electricity, or is it >really an internal electronic problem. I have to mention that it was not >really a second hand body, the precedent possessor just bougth it on a >friday, realized it was impossible to make the point for him without >autofocus (poor man, sigh...) and sell it the monday after for a brand new >F5. So I don't consider it is really second-hand. > >This misfunction occured two times and I would like to know if somebody had >the same experience with his R8? > >Thanks for any response for that > >Greg (sorry for my french transcripted english) >Gregoire Vandenschrick, Assistant de recherche >Unite GEOG, Departement GEO, Faculte des Sciences >Universite catholique de Louvain > >email: vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be > vandenschrick@page.ucl.ac.be > >Tel: (00 32) 10 47 28 42 >Fax: (00 32) 10 47 25 56 > >Adresse postale: > Bureau b275, Etage b2, Batiment Mercator > 3, Place Louis Pasteur > 1348 Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve > >