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Subject: [Leica] Eff My Life - my M9 has sensor corrosion :-/
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:27:24 -0700
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$1600 for the sensor replacement (and CLA thing). No money for now, so back
to the Leica M7!

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:31 PM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:

> I think the glass cover corrosion IS the problem. Anyway, sent them an
> email. I don't have another digital so likely I will take the offer, but
> that has to wait until I find a job. Sigh.
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:20 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Give Leica a call.  It might just be the cover glass and relatively
>> iinexpensive?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:16 AM Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Normally I don't shoot uniform color background nor closed down the
>> > aperture too much, but I had the opportunity to photograph some award
>> > statuettes and those are exactly the conditions I shot them in. Sigh.
>> >
>> > Now I have to clean up 120+ images. At least Photoshop Healing Brush and
>> > Smudge tool work great on this set of images.
>> >
>> > Of course Leica no longer offers free replacement. Sigh. Well, the M9 is
>> > the only digital I own... and getting its sensor replaced is probably
>> more
>> > than or close to the price of another used M9 with replaced sensor, not
>> > that I have the money anyway... Ugh.
>> >
>> > --
>> > // richard http://imagecraft.com
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>> --
>> Don
>> don.dory at gmail.com
>>
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>
>
> --
> // richard http://imagecraft.com
> Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious...
> JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative
>


-- 
// richard http://imagecraft.com
Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious...
JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative


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