M240: dead pixel at delivery?

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Tomorrow I will be picking up a new M240 at my local Leica shop.

I intend to take my Summilux + IPad with me and check the M before payment:D if there are any dead pixels on board (red line)

 

I assume, the best set up for this will be:

 

High ISO

Lux nearly closed

White background

 

Is this correct?

Anything else that would be worth checking?

 

Thanks for feedback

 

John

[Daniel Beacock]

Tomorrow I will be picking up a new M240 at my local Leica shop.

I intend to take my Summilux + IPad with me and check the M before payment:D if there are any dead pixels on board (red line)

 

I assume, the best set up for this will be:

 

High ISO

Lux nearly closed

White background

 

Is this correct?

Anything else that would be worth checking?

 

Thanks for feedback

 

John

 

Mine appeared at ISO 640 only so it's not as easy as picking a single high ISO, as it may be specific to one ISO only. I know of one other M240 owner on this forum that also had a line at ISO 640 so it may be a place to start! Checking each rating will be a pain though, it's a very, very thin line to spot on the rear screen, so it may not be practical to check in-store.

 

All fixed now after sending it back to Solms, but took just over a month from the UK.

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Seeing that John can drive by Solms and maybe even have a sensor mapping done on a whilst-you-wait basis, I would not go to all that trouble. It is not a very common failing on a camera delivered in Germany anyway.