Mauribix Posted September 8, 2008 Share #21 Posted September 8, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) ...Or you have a happy trigger finger and the shutter in your M8 has long outlived it's expected life cycle. Which is 150,000 actuations... No problem Sir, my shutter has stop working before 30,000 actuations... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Hi Mauribix, Take a look here M8 - "Attention reset card number"?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
geoffreyg Posted September 8, 2008 Share #22 Posted September 8, 2008 Interesting. My experience is with older Lancias, and everytime I want to figure out how it should be done, the best way is to look at how the factory did it. Somehow, amidst hand production, uneven hand made bodies, and all the difficulties, they seemed to get it right all the time. Maybe that's why I have such tolerance for these issues with the Leica. They do know what they are doing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 8, 2008 Share #23 Posted September 8, 2008 I used to drive a Morgan. When I once visited the factory I mentioned that the bonnet gap on the righthand side was half an inch wider than on the lefthand side, but it didn't bother me. The foreman looked at me for a few seconds and said: "Now that you mention it, they all do, but you are the first customer to remark on it..."In other words: the joys of handcrafted gear. Jaap, Bonnet gap only half an inch on a Morgan - that must have been right at the top of their quality pile. Many years ago, when my brother and I used to race a Martin V8 engined space framed Morgan, we had a lot of trouble with the steering drop arms on the front suspension uprights bending and altering the tracking. The Peter Morgan's comment to me "yes we did have a batch of those where the heat treatment was a bit dubious. I wondered what had happened to them all." On the M8 front, I have had two instances of the numbering sequence resetting in the middle of a card. It is one of the things on the list, when it goes back for the sapphire glass upgrade. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 8, 2008 Share #24 Posted September 8, 2008 Wilson, half an inch wider:D Actually I had but one real design gripe: the exhaust was led far out to the side and fixed fairly stiffly under the running board. Which meant that the flexing of the engine mounting rubbers would loosen the front clamp within a few hundred kilometers.... Sorry for the OT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJP Posted September 8, 2008 Share #25 Posted September 8, 2008 While we are OT anyway I had an Alfa 75 that consumed about 1 litre of oil per 1000 km, when I queried the garage about this they said that's normal start worrying if gets above 1 in 500. The official synthetic engine oil price was such that it added about 50% to the cost per km. Luckily we have the Aldi in NL - at about 1 euro per litre for their oil I survived. Great car, unreliable but still it was fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 8, 2008 Share #26 Posted September 8, 2008 Bernardo-- You know you can check how many shutter actuations the camera has recorded, right? Check the EXIF data in Bridge or whatever EXIF reader you have. It's the quantity identified as "Image Unique ID." The value is in Hex, not decimal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 8, 2008 Share #27 Posted September 8, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) While we are OT anyway I had an Alfa 75 that consumed about 1 litre of oil per 1000 km, when I queried the garage about this they said that's normal start worrying if gets above 1 in 500. The official synthetic engine oil price was such that it added about 50% to the cost per km. Luckily we have the Aldi in NL - at about 1 euro per litre for their oil I survived. Great car, unreliable but still it was fun. ......but I bet I was one of the few people masochistic enough to have 2 x 75's. A 2.5 litre in 1987, which was not too bad and then a 3.5 litre Autodelta one in 1989, on which the only bits which did not break were the bits that fell off first. Makes an M8 seem like a paragon of reliability and good ergonomic design. Mind you Ron Simmons who runs the largest race school at the Nurburgring, uses nothing but old 75's as his tuition cars. Was taken round the ring by him in an ancient 4 cylinder one, which was a total eye-opener as to what an expert can do with a very ordinary bit of machinery. Perhaps I should start learning to take photos with an Instamatic. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Kelly Posted September 9, 2008 Share #28 Posted September 9, 2008 ......but I bet I was one of the few people masochistic enough to have 2 x 75's. . . .Wilson I can also claim similar madness. My first 75 ('interesting ergonomics' aside) was re-modelled by a crash barrier after casting a shoe on the M6, the second (and last) succumbed to spontaneous combustion in a petrol station near Slough, which was even more exciting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beginagain Posted October 3, 2015 Share #29 Posted October 3, 2015 Bump! Thanks to Erfahrener Benutzer. Following his instructions exactly fixed my problem. I looked back an my 1st photo started numbering at L9995436, no idea why. 4,564 photos later and firmware 2.014 Thanks for the wonderful record forum dudes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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