Broken/clipping shutter? 1/4000, 1/3000

[cmod]

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M10 just a few months old.

 

Shutter suddenly started clipping 70% of image at 1/4000. 

 

Also looks like it's not quite getting out of the way at 1/3000, either. 

 

Is this common? Back to the factory?

 

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[mdemeyer]

Have you upgraded the firmware to the latest? I know they listed a fixed bug as black images at short shutter speeds.

 

Just a wild guess...

[cmod]

Have you upgraded the firmware to the latest? I know they listed a fixed bug as black images at short shutter speeds.

 

Just a wild guess...

 

Aaaaaaand. Fixed.

 

THANK YOU.  

 

I had just upgraded firmware at the start of July.

 

I don't really keep on track of these forums / Leica news, so the idea that there might have been even newer firmware never crossed my mind. 

 

Between issues like this and the recent TL bricking kerfuffle with the Visoflex … Leica should probably thoroughly review their software shipping pipeline.

 

I mean, it's cute, in that it makes Leica seem like a quaint bumbling little village cobbler, but seems out of character for a purveyor of precision instruments. 

 

Many thanks again. 

[mdemeyer]

Glad it worked! :-)

 

Michael