scott kirkpatrick Posted September 13, 2009 Share #41 Posted September 13, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I took some shots this afternoon with a camera with firmware 1.002 and the serial number is ********** I checked our correspondence, and I misremembered. No serial number besides ****** has been seen yet, even in 1.002. I still can't imagine that this is a big problem. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 Hi scott kirkpatrick, Take a look here Correction: No recall on the first batch of Leica M9!. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
vikasmg Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share #42 Posted September 13, 2009 just use the search function about SH Photo GmbH in Nürnberg and u will understand. I couldn't find anything other than the bad experience of a Hasselblad user. Was that what you meant? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikasmg Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share #43 Posted September 13, 2009 I'm going to talk to Boris Jamchtchik and Leica tomorrow - I'll tell you what I'll find out... Andreas Thank you Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikasmg Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share #44 Posted September 13, 2009 Well, that is purely speculations. Haven't heard of that either. Well the price quoted to me was 5,495 Euro plus 60 Euro for shipping to Singapore, both of which were reasonable I thought. The strange this is that the email from them later said: >> Hello! Yes, we arrived payment from you, First delivery was 10 cameras in our shop, and already your M9 was in Shipping boxe, but seam day Leica company all cameras from first delivery call back to factory, is any problem, next week we have to get from Leica cameras back, and from first deliver we will send you camera. Best Regards Boris Jamchtchik << [some line breaks and address removed] He says >> already your M9 was in Shipping boxe <<. That's the really strange part. - Vikas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikasmg Posted September 13, 2009 Author Share #45 Posted September 13, 2009 hi, I don't understand SH Photo promising a M9 "at once"?? The big sellers (as like as "leica bei meister" in Hamburg) need 6 up to 8 weeks (!!!) for germans photographers interested in buying a M9. I don't trust SH photo, and it seems I'm right. German Leica M fans have to wait, but we do it knowing to receive an excellent new model auf Leica M. Hope, you receive vour cam as fast as promised (9days!!). And: a new firmware will NEVER be a reason of call back. Just download and solve your "firmware problem" by yourself !! Greeting from germany Well I went on PayPal and lodged a complaint. It appears that I have since had my money refunded. Wasted my time and stopped me from ordering it from a more reliable dealer, but other than that .... - Vikas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tashley Posted September 13, 2009 Share #46 Posted September 13, 2009 I took some shots this afternoon with a camera with firmware 1.002 and the serial number is ********** DItto. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 14, 2009 Share #47 Posted September 14, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) ... He only received half the "expected" number. I don't know if that means half the agreed number though. ... In the decade I worked for Leica, there was never an "agreed" number. A dealer orders. Leica (or distributor) ships. If Leica US receives 100 cameras and there are 2000 backorders, the cameras are allotted by NJ. When a product is backordered, there's no way a salesman can promise a given quantity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 14, 2009 Share #48 Posted September 14, 2009 If due to an oversight, the serial number has not been hard coded in these early M9 cameras, there might be an easy way round this. Please excuse me if I am a bit rusty but it is 20 years since I last did any serious programming (RPG II and III). Leica could issue a two part firmware update. The second part would be a mini compiler, which would be the program one would run first. Into this you would enter your camera serial number and this would then re-write a line on the actual firmware update, inserting the serial number into that. Then when the firmware update was run, that would write the camera serial number into the non-volatile memory area of the M9 together with a small sub-routine, that would instruct the EXIF assembler to look to that section of the NVM for the serial number. Any reason that this could not work? I assume that there has been spare capacity left in the NVM for future developments. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUF Admin Posted September 14, 2009 Share #49 Posted September 14, 2009 Just to stop the rumor mill: There is no call back of LEICA M9 cameras by Leica Camera. I'll talk to SH Photo later. Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUF Admin Posted September 14, 2009 Share #50 Posted September 14, 2009 Now I talked to SH Photo too: They didn't want to sell cameras overseas from the first batch they received form Leica. Again: No call back of LEICA M9 by Leica Camera... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 14, 2009 Share #51 Posted September 14, 2009 Thanks Andreas I will close the thread at this point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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