Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] M8 first glitch
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Tue Mar 27 06:49:23 2007
References: <F8FE9E5F-7572-4235-BC53-9E894CD23431@mac.com> <a475f600703261858p1a2c60efle0685588054c9acb@mail.gmail.com>
 
On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Red Dawn wrote:
> Sorry to hear of your problem George. Is your M8 running the latest
> firmware?

Yes.

> Short of sending it back to Solms, as a last resort u might want
> to try refreshing the firmware in your camera even if u have the  
> latest
> version...

I'll give it a shot. However, I doubt this is a software issue. I  
suspect it is a battery/switch issue of some incomprehensible (to me)  
nature

> Have u changed anything since the last time u used it properly? new  
> SD card?
> new set of battery?

No. I've been using the same two batteries and one SD card since day  
one.

> There are just too many reports of dying M8s. Leica really needs to  
> get to
> the bottom of things!

Agreed.


Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com
In reply to: Message from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] M8 first glitch)
Message from david5stones at gmail.com (Red Dawn) ([Leica] M8 first glitch)