Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another reason to cling to an M5, Konica I, Pentax 6x7, Hasselblad and a bushel of film. Wayne On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 16:28 Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > My precious Monochrom ( M9 Based Digi-Leica) would not accept a memory > card. Just kept telling me that there was no SD card installed. > > > I tried a bunch of other cards. No luck. At this point I saw a BIG > repair bill coming my way..... > > Did a Google search of ... Leica M9 SD Card Problems.... All the articles > were old ( well, what do you expect given the camera is old?) > > Three solutions were offered at that time...... a) contacts on camera or > card were "dirty".... Clean them b) Bad memory card or card reader in the > camera ( what I feared) and finally, c) In the beginning of the M9, there > were some issues with certain cards not working.... Leica chimed in and > said > they knew about the problem, towards a fix. > > The cards were mostly Sandisk.... > > > Well, the cards I was trying were all Sandisk, Extreme Pro.... I had 64GB, > 32GB, 128GB..... none had worked. > > I did have a pair of Transcend 32GB cards..... tried one and it worked > perfectly. > > The message to leave everyone with.... if your camera acts up,, Google the > problem... and follow the solutions offered. > > I would have expected Leica to fix the incompatibility years ago, but > nope..... > > > What did we do before the Internet? > > > B+W anyone? > > > Frank Filippone > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information