Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do you have a winder or motor for your R8? If so; you may wish to test that functionality as well. While I have not experience this issue with the DMR I did occasionally experience something similar with the winder. However, that was with a different R8 body (which I still have) My DMR came with an R8 body all its own. Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Nov 19, 2008, at 11:55 AM, grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: > Doug, > > Well in my case it seems to lock up the shutter when it does this. > this is a really weird problem. I have found that if I shoot and > manually check shutter cock between shots it works just fine. > Maybe it is because the R8 has sat in active for so long and its > shutter is stiff? ;-) > > Thanks to everyone who has replied so soon. I will try cleaning > the contacts, I would guess the sensor cleaner would do or I may > see if we have some alcohol around, and keep exercising it and it > will go away. > > Gene > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "wildlightphoto@earthlink.net" <wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> >> >> Gene Duprey wrote: >> >>> After shooting a while the unit will not cock the shutter. >>> I can remove the power unit and cock the R8 manually and >>> it then works for a while. >> >> I get this occasionally, something like once every few months or >> so. You >> don't need to remove the power unit, just cock the shutter. I'm >> not sure >> what the problem is, it's infrequent enough that it hasn't >> bothered me. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft? Windows? and Linux web and >> application >> hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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