Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This could have been a defect or a slowly failing electronic component, but it could just as easily have been a rarely-triggered software bug. What Adam said about pulling the battery is right on--that's just Ctrl-Alt-Del for digital Leicas (all digital cameras, actually). You could send it in, or you could simply see if it happens again. My M8 has "frozen" a few times since I bought it in 2007. Usually when I had it set to Discrete shutter and tried to take a few continuous exposures, but a couple times right out of the blue. Since others have encountered the same problem, and pulling the battery always got it back up and running, I just chalked it up to "Stuff happens." If it were me, I would just use the camera regularly and if it didn't happen again, I would forget about it. If it did, I would reload the firmware. Only if it happened again after that would I send it in to Leica. I would also try to correlate if temperature had anything to do with it happening. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > When I read about a failure mode like this I think about two things: heat > and a loose connection somewhere. > > Was your M9 being heavily used and perhaps put down in the field of a hot > spot-light? Did you move it somewhere cool or cooler so the whole body > could cool down and then it would start working again. > > The possibility of a loose connection is there but you?d have to ask if > the camera was subject to a short, sharp shock or something although why it > would come back is another issue. > > Did you happen to pop the battery out as your trouble-shot the problem? I > can imagine being all ready to go and having your camera suddenly fail > wouldn?t lead to a thoughtful point by point bit of troubleshooting. But > I?d think that popping out the battery, turning the camera ON and maybe > hitting the shutter to deplete any energy that might be stored in the > system and then returning the battery and restarting would have been what > I?d have done fairly quickly. That and doing a ?bounce test? by throwing > the damned thing on the concrete floor a few times. Oh, wait, I?d NEVER do > that nor even think it. > > I?d definitely send it to Leica. This kind of betrayal suggests an > intervention as soon as possible. > > Adam > > > > On Sep 4, 2015, at 7:34 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG < > leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Big top sekrit photo shoot last week at the New York Public Library. > They gave the library gave me lots of space to set up a studio before a > performance art piece out on the steps. It was six hours of setting up the > studio then waiting and the very second it was time to go, my M9 konked > out, just a bunch of vertical lines on the display. I had a d800 with me > because I had a fisheye for it which I was planning to use outside and I > was able to slap a 28-70 on that and keep going but I?m wondering if > anybody else has experienced this? > > > > Later it started working again and I was able to use it outside but I?m > wondering is this is a known thing that can be serviced or if it?s just ?oh > well, who knows?." > > > > Possibly NSFW if topless women are NSFW wherever you are. > > > > My behind the scenes: > > http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/818224.html > > > > the Big Blog Post about the entire thing with an awesome time lapse > movie: > > http://amandapalmer.net/truth-and-consequences/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >