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Subject: [Leica] Another M8 malfunction, this time with the thumbwheel
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:58:42 -0800
References: <6DB57986-E2C6-4C34-8A74-6C7EEB387A6F@yahoo.co.uk>

This sounds like the hardware gets either gummed up or certain bits are
fatigued :-( Either case, sounds like a trip to Leica :-(

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> In the last couple of days my thumbwheel has been playing up.  I take a
> shot, sometimes want to check focus, and turn the wheel.
> Then... sometimes nothing happens.  Or... it zooms in once.  Then nothing.
>  Then click-turn again and it zooms back out to where it was, and all the
> turning will not get it any closer in than one click usually gives.
> Ach.  When I try the thumbwheel in the menu I get the same problem.  It
> goes down one menu level with one click, nothing the next, then up back to
> the top level with the next click, and so on like that, up and down only 
> for
> the first two choices. At least I can use the up and down keys for the 
> menu.
>
> Every now and again, it will zoom in properly, but then it malfunctions
> again, most of the time.
>
> Anyone else had this?
>
> Peter Cheyne
>
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