fotografr Posted March 5, 2015 Share #1 Posted March 5, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Reading through these threads, one gets the impression the M (typ 240) is plagued with problems. Are there people whose copy has been trouble free? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jdlaing Posted March 5, 2015 Share #2 Posted March 5, 2015 Not a bit of trouble with mine. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaburger Posted March 5, 2015 Share #3 Posted March 5, 2015 At the risk of jinxing myself, so far both mine have been fine. One was a demo, the other a pre-owned-certified, so ostensibly they were checked out at Leica before being sent out to the dealers (but I have no firsthand knowledge of what Leica's actual protocol is wrt to that) and AFAIK there is no way to accurately determine how many actuations are on them. However they were both cosmetically pristine so I tend to think they were not used much if at all. That said, my M9 and M8 before it were also problem-free for the duration I owned them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
horosu Posted March 5, 2015 Share #4 Posted March 5, 2015 Mine, two years and a half now 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted March 5, 2015 Share #5 Posted March 5, 2015 Got mine in May 2013. No problem since then. I shoot mostly in classic mode though. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted March 5, 2015 Share #6 Posted March 5, 2015 No problems whatsoever. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Ringe Posted March 5, 2015 Share #7 Posted March 5, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Trouble free so far for over one year. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmx_2 Posted March 5, 2015 Share #8 Posted March 5, 2015 First the most important, mine has been absolutely trouble free since june 2013 . Second, it's very easy finding pages describing differnet problems with the Leica M and finding unhappy owner etc, etc, but my experience is that people tend to write only if they actually have a problem. Very few people post just how happy they are with a product. I believe no matter which product you look at (car, camera, computer, etc) you can find both happy and unhappy owners. My general impression is that there is actually very little problems with the cameras today. There are of course some things which could be better (like more buffer and a better EVF), but this is more "features" than actual "problems. Bottomline is that it is still a damn good camera for it's main purpose, being a manual focus simple rangefinder camera. I can draw a parallell to my own field, heavy industrial diesel engines. I used to work as a service manager, my job was actually to talk to and assist "unhappy customers" each and every day (gets tiresome after a few years), switching to new engine sales made me realize how very little problems we actually had with the engines, but during mine time in service one could easily get the impression that we only had problems with the engines. Today we have a saying, "as long as you don't hear anything, everything is fine" //Joakim 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
profus Posted March 5, 2015 Share #9 Posted March 5, 2015 Not a single problems so far... Much more stable than M9 //Alex 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithlaban.co.uk Posted March 5, 2015 Share #10 Posted March 5, 2015 No problems. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeinzX Posted March 5, 2015 Share #11 Posted March 5, 2015 No problems with my M 240 - but I did not have either with my M 9. Lucky men - obviously - I am. At least in this respect. But perhaps the most are very happy with their M 240 - but the don´t cry it out. Wheras, these who have troubles - and that can ever be, and with every product do this, which is quite understandable. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted March 5, 2015 Share #12 Posted March 5, 2015 Trouble free. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted March 5, 2015 Share #13 Posted March 5, 2015 Satisfied owners seldom post notices of their satisfaction. Just human nature. What you read in forums is the tip of the iceberg of experiences. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anupmc Posted March 5, 2015 Share #14 Posted March 5, 2015 Same here, totally trouble free from day1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marten Root Posted March 5, 2015 Share #15 Posted March 5, 2015 No problems. Marten 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotomas Posted March 5, 2015 Share #16 Posted March 5, 2015 Got mine in 12/2013. Had one freeze until now. That's all. The rest is fine. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodoleica Posted March 5, 2015 Share #17 Posted March 5, 2015 Got mine august 2013. No any problem. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted March 5, 2015 Share #18 Posted March 5, 2015 2 M240's one now sold 1 M-P - no problems with any of them (apart from a rangefinder adjustment on one after a year for slight back focus - could easily have been bashed about. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted March 5, 2015 Share #19 Posted March 5, 2015 LCD briefly 'mad scrolled' one day last year; otherwise problem free. The M strap retainer lock seems less secure than prior iterations, but that's a strap issue, not the M body. Jeff 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share #20 Posted March 5, 2015 Thanks for the input and I hope none of you have jinxed yourself by saying you haven't had any problems. I've been sitting on the sidelines since the M(240) was released to see if major problems surfaced, as they have with the M8 and M9. I've really wanted to get the M(240) but kept backing out after reading here about lock-ups and exposure problems. I've now decided to go ahead with it and just hope my experience is the same as those who posted in this thread. Cheers, Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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