tecky Posted September 20, 2014 Share #1 Posted September 20, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Was walking around shooting this wed and suddenly my M refuses to switch on. A quick check and i noticed a burning smell from the battery compartment. No evidence of burning but the smell was really strong. Sent to Leica service immediately and it seems like my M will be on its 8 weeks journey to Solm and back. Anyone had the same problem?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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indergaard Posted September 20, 2014 Share #2 Posted September 20, 2014 Was walking around shooting this wed and suddenly my M refuses to switch on. A quick check and i noticed a burning smell from the battery compartment. No evidence of burning but the smell was really strong. Sent to Leica service immediately and it seems like my M will be on its 8 weeks journey to Solm and back. Anyone had the same problem?? Sounds like you made too many hot pictures! But seriously, that doesn't sound good. Sounds like a short of some kind, or a fuse that blew, or something. I hope they'll fix it quickly for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted September 20, 2014 Share #3 Posted September 20, 2014 And being weather sealed you can't even throw it in a bucket of water:( Sorry about the problem, never heard of that before. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thighslapper Posted September 20, 2014 Share #4 Posted September 20, 2014 A resistor or similar has burnt out somewhere on the power input part of the circuitry. Leica will just exchange the board. I had a similar but much more dramatic event with my XV charger ..... a loud bang, smell of burnt bakelite and then zilch. Leica exchanged by return of post .... ..... pity the camera fix won't be as speedy ... sorry ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonel Posted September 21, 2014 Share #5 Posted September 21, 2014 It could of course be the camera from hell but it seems the Solms/Weztlar exorcism worked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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