[Leica] M8 failure in rain

[tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)]

Richard -

You might remember that I dropped two M8s in a river in Honduras (actually,
I fell in the river while wearing the M8s)  We went under water but I dried
the cameras out by the fire and they continued working for the whole trip.
I sent them in to Leica for CLA and they are still working today.

Tina

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> I've had my M8 out in rain a number of times as well as a couple of bloody
> awful snow blizzards.
> Never a problem.
> Now you realize that I have confessed that! The next time out and even a
> mild shower and a couple of rain drops fall on the camera??????? :-(
> It will crap out! :-(  Other than the few times I've encountered weather
> situations with my M8 it has never failed me  at anytime. Or later!
> Sorry to hear of your rain misadventure, I hope others have an answer? My
> bottom line bet is?  You'll probably have to send it into LEICA!
> :-(cheers,
>
> Dr. ted Grant  C.M.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of
> Richard Endress
> Sent: July-23-16 3:18 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] M8 failure in rain
>
> Hello All,
>
> I wanted to ask the group how often do you have problems with your digital
> M
> cameras in the rain.  I visited the Draken Harald Harfagre, the largest
> viking ship afloat, a couple days ago. Got onboard for a quick tour just in
> time to get rained on. I lost about half of my photos due to water getting
> into the camera. The shutter and metering continued to function correctly
> but the images did not get recorded on the chip. Or not correctly recorded,
> just got stripes and blocks of tone. I assume raindrops got into the
> circuitry through the back and through the top. My problem is that it did
> not get that wet, we are talking a few drops. Has anyone had the same
> problem and what can I do to prevent it happening again? Or should I have
> just taken my M6 instead?
>
> Richard Endress
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