Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Javier, To be fair on the M8 in question it was dropped on a marble floor and slid across it for several metres, a week or so ago. It is not known weather this caused some damage inside the camera which has led on to the shutter prob. Gordon Sunday, February 24, 2008, 12:41:30 AM, you wrote: JP> Wow! JP> JP> I've been in obsolete camera heaven too long! JP> I had no idea M8 shuitters could derail so easily. JP> I have gotten swabs stuck in EOSes a few times JP> and they do jam, but removing the swab and then JP> pulling and reinserting battery resets them just fine. JP> To make things worse the M8 inquestion failed all by itself! JP> JP> Anyway, back to the isssue at hand. I had not read the original JP> post. If it's under warrantee i wouldn't touch it or I would JP> do so making sure not to leave any evidence of tampering. JP> JP> Javier >> From: hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> To: lug@leica-users.org> Subject: RE: >> [Leica] M8 Shutter Fault, Help!> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:43:37 +1000> > >> Tina, maybe you have already decided. I can imagine your frustration at >> the fault developing.> I am apparently a lone voice here, but...> As it >> is under warranty I would NOT attempt to fix it myself. Yes you might get >> lucky, but I ask you to consider the situation where> the Leica >> technician looks at your faulty shutter and can see that there has been >> mechanical contact. However unfair people may> consider that, they could >> refuse a warranty claim in this case. > For example LFI reports M8's >> arriving for repair where the shutter closed during sensor cleaning. This >> is attributed to people using> 'B' instead of the menu 'sensor clean' >> selection. Yes I understand that there is already mechanical damage to >> your shutter and you> may not make it worse..> Best of luck getting it >> resolved. I would be shooting with whatever else you packed until you get >> home.> Cheers> Geoff> > -----Original Message-----> Subject: Re: [Leica] >> M8 Shutter Fault, Help!> > Tina writes from India:> > > My intrepid M8 >> locked up this morning while I was shooting photos > > from a boat in >> southern India. No, I didn't drop it in the water! I > > was using the >> 75/1.4 lens and when I pressed the shutter button, > > instead of going >> snkclk, the M8 just went snk and "Shutter Fault" > > showed up on the >> screen. When I removed the lens, I could see that > > the bottom edge of >> the top blade of the shutter is stuck slightly > > behind the top edge of >> the second blade. It looks like I could just > > flip the edge up and >> over and everything would be fine, but my > > business manager insists >> that I write to the LUG for advice before I > > touch anything inside the >> M8. I'm used to making repairs on my film > > M's but haven't attempted >> much inside the digital ones. We have four > > more days in India and I'd >> hate not to have my M8 for Mumbai.> > > > Has anybody seen this fault and >> fixed it? TIA for any advice.> > Unfortunately: yes I have seen it, and >> no I did not fix it.> > If memory serves (a sometime thing) that sounds >> *exactly* like what > happened to my first M8 last May after around 30 >> days of ownership. I > remember discussing it with SonC and some others >> via email at the time > (it of course happened on a weekend, but I was at >> a dog show in Shawnee > Oklahoma, not half a world away) and I thought I >> had a photo of the hung > up shutter but I can't now find it. What >> happened, after some phone > calls that Monday, I wound up shipping it to >> Leica NJ and they replaced it.> > Now this is the hazy part: I vaguely >> remember a later phone > conversation with Robert Fisk (who was then in >> the service department, I > understand he has since departed Leica) about >> whether I could have fixed > it myself and he said 'no'.> > Having said >> that, if I were in your situation I would give it a try > anyway, as has >> previously been discussed.> > Good luck!> > --Bob> > > >> _______________________________________________> Leica Users Group.> See >> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information> > > > >> _______________________________________________> Leica Users Group.> See >> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information JP> _________________________________________________________________ JP> Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail?-get your "fix". JP> http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx JP> _______________________________________________ JP> Leica Users Group. JP> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Best wishes, lindnich mailto:lindnich@tesco.net