[Leica] M8 RF froze up today

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

His problem was with the frame selector, nothing to do with the shutter.  It 
effects the lens frame selection only, the rest of the camera works just 
fine.

Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Justianto" <jsjgroups at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:41:10 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 RF froze up today

Does the lcd stating "shutter fault"?

Jsj

On 2/17/10, grduprey at mchsi.com <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:
> Vick,
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  Should be a quick fix.
>
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vick Ko" <vick.ko at sympatico.ca>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:25:22 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 RF froze up today
>
> Gene
>
> The RF arm movement is sticky.
>
> For instance, if I rack the lens back to infinity and then out to the
> close focus distance, the arm sticks in, and then as the lens cam moves
> out, the arm doesn't "follow" the cam, and then of course, the camera
> doesn't show focus properly.
>
> And if I move the lever arm with my finger, the movement feels very
> gritty.
>
> It's going back to Leica NJ on Monday.    I'm not happy with it.
>
> ...Vick
>
>
>
> grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
>> Vick,
>>
>> I'm not sure what the failure was by your description.  Are you saying the
>> camera died or the frame selection froze?
>>
>> Gene
>
>
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