Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I always shot with 2Gb cards in the M8, and still have 6 or so around for it for the IR I now shoot with it. Henning Wulff hjwulff at gmail.com On 2015-11-15, at 2:09 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > WIBD! > > All those who insisted that the problem is most likely an SD card > incompatibility were right. I put in an old 1 GB card and the M8 is > perfectly happy. Hate to think though that I?m forever limited to 1 or 2 > GB, despite the fact that Leica?s current tech specs say that it?ll > accommodate up to 32 GB, but I suppose any one photo session is unlikely > to exceed these capacities. Hope I can still find a 2 GB card?I may have > tossed out my other old low-capacity ones as not worth keeping! > > ?howard > > >> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:27 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: >> >> Neither a new 32GB card nor having the battery removed overnight fixed >> things. Since I?m not sure that I successfully used the 8GB card in the >> M8 in the past, now I?ll try to find an old 2 GB card and try that. >> >> ?howard >> >> >>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> We could argue all day long. If you have an old 2gb card, try it. >>> >>> The real issue is to tell if the problem is a card issue or a body >>> issue. >>> >>> My real suspicion is that it is a card issue. You could take the card >>> and do a low level format (special SW required, which is free, but who >>> wants to bother). It is most likely something on the card that got >>> scrambled. It is just so much easier to throw the card away and get on >>> with life.....with a new card. >>> >>> Frank Filippone >>> Red735i at verizon.net >>> >>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:51 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: >>> >>> mine works fine with 8 and 16 >>> >>> ric >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> The M8 will not work with any 8Gb card. It will work with (very few, >>>> specific) 4Gb cards, and almost all 2Gb cards. But not 8Gb cards. >>>> >>>> Henning Wulff >>>> hjwulff at gmail.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 2015-11-14, at 8:23 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> It?s an old 8 GB, which I *think* I?ve used with the M8 before, but >>>>> I?m not sure. In any case, I?ll buy and try a new one. >>>>> >>>>> ?howard >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 7:52 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> What size card? >>>>>> >>>>>> But the other advice... Try another card... Are definitely first to >>>>>> try. >>>>>> >>>>>> Frank Filippone >>>>>> Red735i at verizon.net >>>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> When I turn my M8 on, the first thing I see is the message: ?SD-Card >>>>>> full?. But it isn?t, not nearly. When I push the PLAY button, it >>>>>> tells me: ?No valid image to play?. But there are images. (The card >>>>>> is read normally, and its images displayed, by the M240.) When I >>>>>> press the M8?s MENU button, the menu is displayed normally. But when >>>>>> I select Format SD-Card, it will not reformat the card?it doesn?t >>>>>> progress beyond the ?Do you want to format the SD-Card?? screen when >>>>>> I push the Yes button. All that happens is the red light flashes >>>>>> rapidly. I have to remove the battery to get out. >>>>>> >>>>>> Reformatting the same card in the M240 proceeds normally, but the >>>>>> situation is the same when it?s put back into the M8, and the M8 >>>>>> gives the same notices when I try the M240?s SD card in it. >>>>>> >>>>>> When I try to install the current firmware update that?s been >>>>>> downloaded onto the SD card, again the M8 reports ?SD-Card full?. >>>>>> >>>>>> (By the way, all you M8 users: Contrary to Leica?s online >>>>>> instructions, the M8 firmware update file is NOT a .zip file, and >>>>>> does not need to be decompressed into a .upd file that gets put onto >>>>>> your SD card. It?s already a .upd file and only needs to be >>>>>> downloaded and transferred in its native state to your SD card. >>>>>> (Sorry if this is common knowledge that?s already been shared, but I >>>>>> haven?t updated my M8 in years.) The instructions for the M240 are >>>>>> different, and the update file for it is a .fw file that likewise >>>>>> isn?t a compressed file, or at least not one that needs decompressing >>>>>> by the user.) >>>>>> >>>>>> Any solution short of sending it on a trip to NJ? >>>>>> >>>>>> ?howard >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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