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Hi folks, I have an opportunity to buy a M-240 which is in reasonable condition... EXCEPT the sensor creates photos with a BLUE horizontal line (photo further down) Does anybody know what I will cost to repair the problem... or is it a simple software/remapping issue? The sale is about US$3300. It has shutter count of 4300. Apparently this happened after a long exposure shot. Advice would be much appreciated.

Hi! I have just recently brought a second hand Leica m10p camera that is produce in June 2019. As I was testing it, I found that there is a horizontal line run across most of my pictures. It happens when my camera is heated or I dial the iso up to 1600. Previous seller claim that he never encounter any issue like this... This is my first Leica m camera as I'm not very familiar with it, so I'm not sure if it is trigger by me or is it something else. I have read through all the forum since I have this issue. And was surprise that this is a common issue on this extremely expensive camera. I have follow the instruction from attached post and send several email to Leica to explain my problem, thinking it will be an easy fix. However, a week has passed and never received any email back from Leica customer service nor the technical department. Does anyone has similar problem with horizontal line or customer service? Any advice would help enormously! Thank you so much!

Well, as an experienced M film user, you can imagine my disappointment ... I picked up my M10 in Sydney today and took about 100 shots at a family gathering with two lenses, a ZM Biogon 35/2 and a Summarit 75/2.5, shooting with auto ISO. On (I think) all the ISO 2500 images, I got horizontal lines that run all the way across the image. The lines seem to be 1 pixel high: see the first and third images I've uploaded. The files I've uploaded are 100% crops from the DNGs processed in Lightroom 5.7.1 (clicking auto exposure to bring out the issue, but it's visible on the straight conversions too). The same problem is also visible, in the same places, on the camera JPGs. Unsurprisingly, it's easiest to detect in shadow areas, but none of these was massively over or underexposed. It happened with both lenses (the Biogon hand-coded as a Summicron 35 and the Summarit auto-coding). Weirdly, I cannot find these problem lines at any other ISO sensitivities, and auto ISO picked a large range, from about 400 up to 10,000. There just seems to be something wrong with 2500. The other problem is a number of what appear to be hot pixels, which are not confined to ISO 2500. I've attached a shot (the second one, with the bottom of the beer bottle) that was taken at ISO 3200 and shows them fairly clearly. The camera is running firmware 1.3.4.0. I should add that I'm not at all new to Lightroom or digital generally. I've shot Nikon digital for many years. But this is my first digital M. So: have I got a dud body, and should I just take it back for exchange for a new one? All the best, Richard (I should also add that I've read this forum for a long time, and found it very helpful and informative, but I've never felt I had anything to add or any query to raise. I've searched the forum but can't find posts dealing with similar problems to the one I'm experiencing. The closest was about an M10 with horizontal banding, but that post did not seem to be about lines only 1 pixel high.)