Strange M9 image corruption - part of latter image in prior image.

[mjh]

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Anything that has to do with image corruption means I will send my camera back to Leica.

Which would leave you without your M9, but would it help with this particular issue? When Leica succeeds in identifying the cause of the issue they will surely publish a firmware update squashing this bug, but until then, there is nothing they could do with your camera. Unless it isn’t really a firmware issue but some defect of, say, the card controller or some other hardware component, but I doubt that.

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[Shade]

Michael, have you confirmed with Leica that it is a firmware not hardware related issue?

 

Yes, I also had sensor processing issues. I'm getting my m9 back this week. I'd rather leave myself with no m9 for a short time rather than an error m9 that risks me from keeping my good shots.

[mjh]

Michael, have you confirmed with Leica that it is a firmware not hardware related issue?

No, it is just an educated guess – “educated” in the literal sense in that I am a computer scientist and that’s what it looks like to me.

[Shade]

Michael, not to underestimate your knowledge, but if it is a firmware issue, wouldn't you think more of us should be experiencing it?

 

Furthermore, have you sent file samples to Leica and ask them over the phone and/or mail?

 

I personally think its a processing issue. Something hardware related, be it a pixel reading the frame wrongly and sending the wrong information to the processing chip, or whatnot.

 

I'm not a technical guy, but I think leica should be able to get it fixed, be it firmware or hardware related.

 

But if you can live with it, then I guess its alright. I just can't justify myself thinking "what if the shot that I really like turns out to be corrupted". And plus, its a 7k camera, it should perform as it is intended to be. Sure we adjust to its shortcomings, but not to its errors..

 

Just my two cents..

[toplina]

Yeah, I have used M8 and M9 and I don't understand why we even buy this stupid and so expansive cameras, when other brands and less then half price cameras do and work so much better, is it just because of the red dot? I have been photographing for the last 20 years and Leica at the moment are so behind.I'll stick to my M6 and M7.

[cheewai_m6]

Yeah, I have used M8 and M9 and I don't understand why we even buy this stupid and so expansive cameras, when other brands and less then half price cameras do and work so much better, is it just because of the red dot? I have been photographing for the last 20 years and Leica at the moment are so behind.I'll stick to my M6 and M7.

 

so helpful

 

I personally think its a processing issue. Something hardware related, be it a pixel reading the frame wrongly and sending the wrong information to the processing chip, or whatnot.

 

i think this is true to an extent. i had a nikon p&s, coolpix 3200 years ago, whenever i copy and past photos off the card onto a portable hard drive, it would do this to 30% of the photos it did it photos from canon p&s as well. if i copy and paste onto hard drive (not portable) it wouldn't do it. now i'm not saying that the OP is copy and pasting onto a portable. just saying, it's possible that with some people's method of transferring photos may contribute or make this happen. it's possible it's not the camera at all, just the transferring of the files.

[scott kirkpatrick]

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I have seen one corrupted frame in my new M9. (frame number 30 out of about 200 so far). A purple rectangle appeared within the lower half of the image. It could have been data copied from the largely empty buffer, as I didn't shoot another frame for a minute or so to either side of the bad shot. This M9 also has the blinking red light "feature."

 

scott