Jump to content

New M8 - Stuck frameline selector


sparkie

Recommended Posts

Advertisement (gone after registration)

Yep, battery charging still... but first problem is the frameline selector is stuck at the 24 & 35mm pair. Have mounted 4 other lenses of different FL's to try to dislodge a stuck or sticky mech. No luck. Stuck on 24 & 35. Dont really want to have to send it back THIS early. And its the 2nd revision

 

Anyone else experience this?

Link to post
Share on other sites

I haven't. Have you tried jiggling the frame selector lever?

 

 

yes (but still no luck), sorry; what i meant is that the frameline selector lever moves from left to right ok, just that the finder framelines aren't changing in correspondence. I've had this problem before with my M2 and M6's before

Link to post
Share on other sites

I noticed a little stickyness wioth the frame line selector when I first got the M8. It was a very cold day here in Atlanta and the camera body was COLD to the touch. Once I mounted several lenses and fooled with the selector lever and the body warmed up everthing is work correctly.

Although I do have a slight back focus problem with the 50 f/2 I tested with at about a 3 foot distance.

Link to post
Share on other sites

When I returned home from a shoot, I noticed my frameline selector lever had fallen off! I don't ever remember it being loose. As this doesn't seem to have happened to anybody elses, here's my camera so eveyone can see what it looks like without it. It's a nice brass colour underneath! Another lever is being sent from Germany for me.

 

JGW

Link to post
Share on other sites

When I returned home from a shoot, I noticed my frameline selector lever had fallen off! I don't ever remember it being loose. As this doesn't seem to have happened to anybody elses, here's my camera so eveyone can see what it looks like without it. It's a nice brass colour underneath! Another lever is being sent from Germany for me.

 

JGW

 

 

! looks very minimalist. and brassing without much effort LOL

Link to post
Share on other sites

Advertisement (gone after registration)

As this doesn't seem to have happened to anybody elses ... JGW

 

JGW, there was a report by another person at this forum (I think it I was this forum) who used a loaned M8 from a camera shop and when he returned it the frame selector was gone. So this has happened to at least one other person :)

 

Furrukh

Link to post
Share on other sites

JGW, there was a report by another person at this forum (I think it I was this forum) who used a loaned M8 from a camera shop and when he returned it the frame selector was gone. So this has happened to at least one other person :)

 

Furrukh

 

I think that might have been me. I was about to post my M8 picture on to the thead I'd started on M8 build quality on the 24th, Jan. I think,- http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/14483-m8-build-quality.html?highlight=build+quality -but I noticed this thread on frameline problems.

I can remember the frameline lever being a little stiff and the framelines sticking a little when I'd just got the camera. But I put this down to newness and it eventually freed up. It was about a week later that I noticed the lever missing.

 

JGW.

Link to post
Share on other sites

So it seems that you are the only reported person who has lost the frame selector

 

Furrukh

 

In the whole world!

Well I have had a terrible start to the new year in many other ways, a bit off subject to go into here, but I suppose the camera wanted to join in too!

It makes the above image quite rare then?!

 

JGW.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...