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Check with a fully-charged battery. If problem persists, Solms is the only solution...

As far as I am concerned yes

I'm happy with my Subtel for Leica I was not with my Subtel for Canon 5D, so I got Duracells and Delkins

You can get REALLY close to lions, as long as you stay INSIDE the car and don't play the fool. I was once in Botswana in an open-top Land Rover, we approached sleeping lions to a point where our front wheel was ~20cm away from one of the cats' ear. The beast moved in its sleep and laid its head against the wheel. After a while we had to move, taking away the makeshift pillow. The lion opened its eyes, groaned and just turned its head the other way. Since then I never go out in Africa with anything longer than my APO-Telyt 180/3.4.

OK thank you Jaap

Hello From time to time I get this kind of artefacts when I'm shooting with the sun directly in front of me. Any explanation from the experts on the forum? This is a 200% crop in Lightroom on the original .dng file.

I have similar problems with my Metz flash, synch doesn't work well @ 1/180. Except that if my memory's OK I had a black band at the bottom, not at the top. For me it just confirmed that an M is better off without a flash, so I just forgot and never used a flash again...

See here: Leica M Lens Codes Questions: - Where did you find your M-R adapter and are you happy with quality etc? - How do you focus an R lens on an M body??

I am also quite satisfied with the Arctic Butterfly, as long as it's dust or particles I want to remove. Sensor swabs do the job fine for the rest. I always use the butterfly first, to remove the particles before wet cleaning. And when the butterfly gets dirty I clean it with the special cleaning solution. I have only one M9 and like to carry several lenses, so now I travel all the time with the butterfly, the loupe and a couple of swabs, just in case.

I got the same kind of strange thing with a Sandisk class 2 card. After I replaced it with a Transcend class 10 I never had any problem again. Probably not necessary to return the whole thing to Mayfair.

With a ~3µ-thick "sensitive layer", M9's tolerance is near zero in terms of focus. I had big focusing problems with a not-so-recent Lux 75. Both lens + body had to go to Sölms for adjustment. 5 weeks and ~500€ later both came back (nearly) fine. In the process I was told by other M9 users that this issue was common on the Lux 75, and could also be encountered with other lenses, including Lux 50 pre-Asph and (surprisingly) the most recent Cron 35 Asph. Your equipment could probably benefit from a return trip to Germany, of which costs will probably be covered by the warranty. Although all this could be viewed as pretty surprising regarding equipment that costs several thousands €s, we have to realize the sheer engineering and manufacturing challenge that it is to build a full-format digital rangefinder cameras designed to sport lenses that open at f/1.4 and wider. As a comparison, the sensitive layer on a film is minimum 30µ thick.