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Cindy Flood · 03/17/07, 02:29 AM

My M8 is one of the original 1500.

I had one failure, but I was able to bring my M8 back. I don't know what card I had in it. Mine was an early failure (early January) before we were aware of all of the trouble. I have 2 Transend, 1 Sandisk, 1 Kingston cards.

The battery had been freshly charged (read full) when we left home. I might have taken about 30 shots. I put the M8 in the neoprene case for a few minutes. When I turned it back on it was dead. I tried pulling the battery and replacing it and it would not come back. I went to the car and got my spare battery. It still would not come on. I pulled it again and it finally came back to life. I noticed that it had re-set the camera. I had been shooting DNG (never shoot anything else) and now it was set for JPEG.

We were up in the mountains in Tortilla Flats, Arizona having lunch in a very crowded spot (dry, static possible) when this happened.

I was using the built-in card reader in my laptop at the time of this incident.

Good luck. We will all be watching to see what happens when you get your new M8.

03/17/07, 02:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
Cindy Flood Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 09/14/06 Posts: 233	Re: For Those Who Have Had M8 Electronic Failures My M8 is one of the original 1500. I had one failure, but I was able to bring my M8 back. I don't know what card I had in it. Mine was an early failure (early January) before we were aware of all of the trouble. I have 2 Transend, 1 Sandisk, 1 Kingston cards. The battery had been freshly charged (read full) when we left home. I might have taken about 30 shots. I put the M8 in the neoprene case for a few minutes. When I turned it back on it was dead. I tried pulling the battery and replacing it and it would not come back. I went to the car and got my spare battery. It still would not come on. I pulled it again and it finally came back to life. I noticed that it had re-set the camera. I had been shooting DNG (never shoot anything else) and now it was set for JPEG. We were up in the mountains in Tortilla Flats, Arizona having lunch in a very crowded spot (dry, static possible) when this happened. I was using the built-in card reader in my laptop at the time of this incident. Good luck. We will all be watching to see what happens when you get your new M8.