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S adapter H and HC lens problems.


Chris101-MM

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Hey all!

 

I need some help and info if anyone of you guys know anything about this? 

 

So, when i shoot with HC lenses (tested 35, 50 (v1) 80, 50-110 and use the central shutter the S (006) hangs.

I can hear the central shutter close and open, but then the camera hangs in such a way that the mem card led is lit up (not flashing) and the camera just sits unresponsive. I cannot turn it off with the power switch, and I've let it sit for approx 2 minutes without any change. 

 

The only way to get the camera working again is to remove the battery. When reviewing the memory card there is no data written to it, neither full nor partial data, so it seems the camera hangs before even trying to write to the card. 

 

Firmware is the latest and greatest, and it did the exact same thing with the old firmware (2.0.0) that was on the camera when i got it.  

 

I would greatly appreciate any help in this matter! 

 

Cheers! 

 

//Chris

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Do have any lenses at all with which this does not happen?

 

Have you tried another storage card, preferably a freshly formatted one? The camera stalling while accessing the storage card automatically makes the the storage card one of the prime suspect. 

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I had a lot of lockings with the HC 50-110, I bought secondhand from a nice German photographer, while I was in Berlin.

 

The problem was cured by cleaning and polishing of the gold contacts of the lens. The same happened several times with the Conrax 645 lenses. I polish the contacts as a sort of a weekly meditation now.

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Hey!

 

Great big Thanks for the advice! :)

 

So, the camera, adapter and lenses are new, so there shouldn't be any dirt on them, but I will try to clean anyhow.

 

No, I have not found any lens that is working. :-( (even went to a local dealer and tried their lenses as well without avail.

 

The adapter is disconnected a lot since I shoot with multiple H, V and S lenses (No CS Leica lenses tho)

 

I generally shoot with two cards in the camera, but I will try one at a time and swap between them. Right now I've been shooting with Sandisk 32gb cards. I do however feel that they should not be the fault as they work with flawlessly when I'm not shooting CS. :) - and come to think about it, I did try without a mem card and it still hanged. :-/

 

I'll tell you my findings after a evening polishing! Cheers!

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