Bill W Posted September 9, 2015 Share #21 Posted September 9, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Mine arrive at the dealer today so it seems unlikely that there is any delay in production!! RVB, Are you in the USA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 9, 2015 Posted September 9, 2015 Hi Bill W, Take a look here S (typ 007) sensor fault? . I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Jeff S Posted September 9, 2015 Share #22 Posted September 9, 2015 His profile lists Netherlands. Of course he could have purchased from elsewhere. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVB Posted September 9, 2015 Share #23 Posted September 9, 2015 RVB, Are you in the USA I bought it in NL. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterv Posted September 9, 2015 Share #24 Posted September 9, 2015 Thanks Rob, I'll be in Amsterdam the coming weeks, looking forward to seeing you. Congratulations on your new camera! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVB Posted September 9, 2015 Share #25 Posted September 9, 2015 Thanks Rob, I'll be in Amsterdam the coming weeks, looking forward to seeing you. Congratulations on your new camera! Mail me when you coming down .. I'll be happy to meet up!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill W Posted September 9, 2015 Share #26 Posted September 9, 2015 I bought it in NL. Rob Thanks Rob, Hopefully more will arrive here as I am waiting......! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albireo_double Posted September 10, 2015 Share #27 Posted September 10, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I've had the 007 for a week now and have put it through a test while traveling with friends in Romania. Out of about 300 images I took, two came out like this. Not a good start for a camera that cost 18 thousand Euro. And no, I am not going to engage in any discussion about memory cards because, to my knowledge, no camera maker other than Leica has ever had any problem with memory cards. Perhaps I should start writing my own reviews of Leica cameras, to balance the romantic poetry and prose published by the various Davids, Jonos and Seans whose cameras never fail to deliver amazing pictures. I am getting fed up with Leica: in the past year, I've had an unresponsive shutter problem with a new M-P240 which manifested itself while I was traveling in Africa and took Leica about 10 weeks to fix; then I had a failed AF on my Summarit 70CS and now this. Meanwhile, my Nikon 810 has never missed a beat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JV- Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #28 Posted September 11, 2015 Leica has serious problems with its quality control. I can't understand how they manage do mistakes like these with the price we pay of cameras and lenses. They are shooting to own leg with this action. Maybe they should move to sell only +50 000€ collectibles which aren't attended to shoot any photos. Ps. Friend of mine has D800 which rejects memory card quite often. Nikon hadn't got that fixed though it was sent to repair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiaubauu2009 Posted September 11, 2015 Share #29 Posted September 11, 2015 bye bye Leica S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bab Posted September 11, 2015 Share #30 Posted September 11, 2015 Wait just a second now with all due respect to Leica any camera new out of the box that shows line like your picture indicates and I believe you you just shot a bright frame processed in LR can't be tolerated....period! that camera should have been put through some very rigourous testing before signed off by quality control. Let's just hope the camera was damaged in shipping, ala loose or cracked something. I'm confident they will ship your dealer a new camera in less than a week if not look elsewhere. Your dealer should be screaming and kicking like hell to get you satisfied. please post a reply on Tuesday when you get the new body thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bab Posted September 11, 2015 Share #31 Posted September 11, 2015 Could also be your battery that needs to get to it's optimum. No way shouldn't matter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bab Posted September 11, 2015 Share #32 Posted September 11, 2015 ...or LR not yet optimized for 007? Doubtful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bab Posted September 11, 2015 Share #33 Posted September 11, 2015 IIRC Leica has a dedicated sensor remapping service for the S. Call Wetzlar. That's a big remapping and a symmetrical pattern I wouldn't accept that solution Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bab Posted September 11, 2015 Share #34 Posted September 11, 2015 Got mine today and took some "test" photos before charging the battery. I opened photos with LR CC and noticed there is five blue vertical lines in every photo. Also some bright lines and white pixels occurred. Screen capture from LR, 100% crop from lower left corner. Viivoja ja pisteitä.JPG why didn't you test the camera before leaving the shop anyway and why didn't the dealer insist on a walk thru just to check you out? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahrenhyde Posted September 11, 2015 Share #35 Posted September 11, 2015 I talked to a Leica tech from Germany at an event in Zurich yesterday. He told me that with a CCD a faulty pixel would lead to a whole line of dead pixels, whereas with a CMOS you would only have single spots that show dead. He also told me that yes, their sensor provider/manufacturer CMOSIS from Belgium have problems producing enough sensors to keep up the production of the 007. So apparently there really is something up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravinj Posted September 11, 2015 Share #36 Posted September 11, 2015 Quoting one of my users who hates a particular software - "It works until you need it". Seems Leica S and lenses fall in the same category. Maybe a tie-up with Panasonic on how to make robust electronics for the S will help Leica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JV- Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #37 Posted September 11, 2015 Update! I got call from my local dealer, my S is ready to pick up. I picked it up and examined it. It's same body, so i asked what is done with it less than a week. Answer was that it needed sort of "sensor reset" something which is normally done in factory but seemingly forgotten least some of the bodies. They did that at the retailer with Leicas technician on the phone. So, i did test shoot and stripes was gone! So was white pixels and other staff. There's light at the end of the tunnel! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted September 11, 2015 Share #38 Posted September 11, 2015 I got call from my local dealer, my S is ready to pick up. I picked it up and examined it. It's same body, so i asked what is done with it less than a week. Answer was that it needed sort of "sensor reset" something which is normally done in factory but seemingly forgotten least some of the bodies. They did that at the retailer with Leicas technician on the phone. I am afraid that what they call "sensor reset" is probably sensor remapping. Sensor remapping just tells the camera raw processor to "hide" the dead pixels by means of nearest neighbor interpolation. That could cause artifacts in your image, as described here: http://diglloyd.com/blog/2013/20130408_2-LeicaM240-bad-pixel-column.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JV- Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #39 Posted September 11, 2015 If they did that, they did it well... I took photo from my roof panel (lots of stripes) at 45° angle and looked it side by side with one where blue lines occurred. At 1:1 scale i didn't find anything suspicious. Anyway, retailer told me to take the camera, use it as much as you want and come back later with camera or money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JV- Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #40 Posted September 11, 2015 When i tried take that photo of my roof, camera on tripod aimed up, me in very uncomfortable position trying to see through viewfinder, i suddenly realized that i have live view! Just sit down and look the back screen and take the shoot. I felt like genius for a moment ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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