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M8 broken in Arizona

Mauribix

By Mauribix
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Maurizio

Can you post how many shutter actuations your camera has on it.

 

Equally interesting, has anyone compiled a database of serial numbers of cameras with shutter breakage? Unless Leica bought enough of them to supply what they estimated as the entire M8 production, it's possible they received new batches of them from the outsource supplier over time. Perhaps the shutter failures are limited to a segment of M8 production. I know the last 3 numbers aren't in exact sequence owing to parallel assembly by multiple workers, but the first 2-3 numbers do connote production batch order.

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thanks you all guys for your support. The shutter did damage by itself, maybe too many actuations? I can't remember how ho check them.

Anyway I'm gonna meet philipotto tomorrow and see. He's a gentleman!

At this moment I'm shooting with a canon G9 just bought in Prescott.

Sorry if I didn't answer rapidly, but I'm using my iphone and often the carrier is out.

Best to you all.

 

Maurizio

 

 

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My m8 went to Solms few weeks before startin my travel. Could have something gone wrong in the check out time?

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Hi Maurizio! Sorry to hear of your misfortune. Somehow I get the impression that this kind of thing is happening to the second run of cameras, sold in the first months of 2007. I seem to recall yours is from that time as well. (serial numbers 3105xxx ) It must be a pain for a company like leica to be dependent on suppliers for this kind of parts. This is the series that had the potentially faulty transistor as well.

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Hi Maurizio! Sorry to hear of your misfortune. Somehow I get the impression that this kind of thing is happening to the second run of cameras, sold in the first months of 2007. I seem to recall yours is from that time as well. (serial numbers 3105xxx ) It must be a pain for a company like leica to be dependent on suppliers for this kind of parts. This is the series that had the potentially faulty transistor as well.

 

Hi,

Is it possible to be a little more precise about the term 'series'? Is it 3105001 to 310599? Mine is 3106xxx - should that come into this 'second run ...' and suffer shutter/transistor failure?

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No- it is just a feeling I have. I have one of these cameras,3105328, and it has never shown any sign of failing in 13000 actuations, but when it was in for engraving Leica automatically exchanged the suspect transistor. I have no idea at what number this socalled T2 upgrade ends - and the number of shutter problems can be counted on one hand, so not to worry. Also, if the transistor of your camera was bound to fail, it would have done so a long time ago.

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T2 failure = sudden death syndrome. We have not seen that for quite a while. I'm convinced that all the affected cameras have either been repaired/upgraded or have a transistor that is within spec.

Shutter failure -pretty obvious. That fault seems to be far more rare, but the reports I've seen in this forum seem to apply to the early 2007 cameras.

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the number of shutter problems can be counted on one hand, so not to worry.

 

I think that all we can say for certain is that the number of shutter failures reported on the internet is small. We can't extrapolate accurately to the number of shutter problems, especially since these failures seem to be happening sporadically over a long time...perhaps related to # of actuations. The failed transistors were burning out boom-boom-boom one after another in a short time frame. But I agree it's pointless to worry. At this point you can't even get the shutter upgrade yet. However, while worrying is a waste of energy, it seems like a good idea at least while travelling to far off destinations or shooting unrepeatable events, to have a plan B on hand. But then that's true of even a camera with a stellar reliability record...Murphy's law and all.

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Hi there guys,

Yesterday I came back home and today my M8's on the way to Solms.

My photo-travel wasn't anyway interrupted since Philip Otto kindly borrowed me his M8 for my last week.

Now, please, does someone remeber how to check the number of shots done with the M8?

I can't remember the way nor the method.

 

 

Cheers

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...oops...

 

found it: my camera has exactly 23987 shots done. I don't believe such a problem should show up with this little amount of actuations, don't you think. I keep going on thinking about something uncorrectly assembled, or a defective part.

 

Cheers

 

Maurizio

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First you need the Unique Image ID. you can get that using Adobe PS CS3 Bridge, look in the Camera Data (EXIF) section. It will be a LONG list of 0 (zeros) followed with something like DD5 (0000000000000000000000000000000000DD5).

Take that last string (DD5 but it could also be something like 5b47) and input it into a scientific calulator, like the one included in Windows XP, you have to toggle scientific mode, in HEX mode then just simply tick DEC.

 

If this is to hard to understand fine the Unique Image ID and post it in this thread, leaving out all the zeros.

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...oops...

 

found it: my camera has exactly 23987 shots done. I don't believe such a problem should show up with this little amount of actuations, don't you think. I keep going on thinking about something uncorrectly assembled, or a defective part.

 

Cheers

 

Maurizio

That's 23 thousand 9 hundred 87 shutter activations? Just how long have you had your M8?

I've had my 2 about 1.5 years and only have about 12,000 on both (Actually I've had 3 M8's, first one was replaced). 4000+ on the black one and a total of 7500+ on the 2 different chrome M8's.

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That's 23 thousand 9 hundred 87 shutter activations? Just how long have you had your M8?

yep, that's 23987 actuations.

The unique ID of the last picture taken before corruption is 5DB3.

I have my camera since January 17th 2007.

 

My M8's serial number is 31020XX

 

@Jaap: you're right I bought it in the time that you recalled ;)

 

Anyway, I love it.:)

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