Burning smell from my Leica M

[tecky]

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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??

[indergaard]

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.

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[250swb]

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

[thighslapper]

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 ...

[colonel]

It could of course be the camera from hell but it seems the Solms/Weztlar exorcism worked