M11 completely frozen with red light near key pad

[Mac Sinclair]

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On it’s 2nd outing my M11 froze. I am meticulous with my equipment and the SD card was new formatted in camera, the camera is running the latest firmware. 1.4.

Removing the SD, taking out the fully charged battery and reinserting it makes no difference, the red light to the right of the screen stays on when the camera is off. The only function I get from the camera is it will automatically fire off a few shots on continuous shooting if the shutter button is depressed. I have tried leaving the battery out for 24 hours, still the same.

So Leica have said they’ll replace it. 

This occurred 1 day after the only other person I know who bought an M11 said his had “gone berserk” with a host of issues. His is being returned for a replacement tomorrow too.

hopefully the replacement will be trouble free like my old SL… but any thoughts on what this could be would be much appreciated as my confidence is dented.

 

 

[jaapv]

Early electronic component failure - can occur on any gear. Your Leica may be expensively hand-crafted but its digital innards are mass-produced in SE Asia.

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2 minutes ago, jaapv said:

Early electronic component failure - can occur on any gear. Your Leica may be expensively hand-crafted but its digital innards are mass-produced in SE Asia.

SE Asia?

Probably Far East Asia and China

[jaapv]

Also possible, but we have seen batteries from Indonesia, India makes plenty of electronics, we have no idea where Leica, Panasonic and their suppliers source their components.  Let's settle on Asia.

[jankap]

Asia. that does not mean, that the quality of the products is worse. We already live a long time with global markets, price driven.

[hdmesa]

4 hours ago, Mac Sinclair said:

On it’s 2nd outing my M11 froze. I am meticulous with my equipment and the SD card was new formatted in camera, the camera is running the latest firmware. 1.4.

Removing the SD, taking out the fully charged battery and reinserting it makes no difference, the red light to the right of the screen stays on when the camera is off. The only function I get from the camera is it will automatically fire off a few shots on continuous shooting if the shutter button is depressed. I have tried leaving the battery out for 24 hours, still the same.

So Leica have said they’ll replace it. 

This occurred 1 day after the only other person I know who bought an M11 said his had “gone berserk” with a host of issues. His is being returned for a replacement tomorrow too.

hopefully the replacement will be trouble free like my old SL… but any thoughts on what this could be would be much appreciated as my confidence is dented.

 

 

Something you might try is with SD card removed, reformat the internal memory and then turn off and pull the battery.