Hi all,
I recently sold a beautiful silver M8 to a fellow overseas and upon arrival it is acting up. Maybe someone here can help zero in on what's wrong. I got the camera from a forum member and as far as I know it worked fine for him.
The camera always worked perfectly for me ... and I checked it just before shipping. Then removed the battery, boxed it all up in the Leica factory box inside a well packed shipping box and sent it off. Just prior to that I shot a wedding with it with no issues at all.
Now that it has arrived it appears it will not meter correctly. Apparently in dark conditions using two different 3rd party lenses (Canon Serenar f/1.9 and a 75mm Heliar) wide open @ most any ISO, the M8 either does a 32 second exposure in dim light, or overexposes a stop or two. In lower light with the light source in the frame it overexposes 1-2 stops, if the light source isn't in the frame it goes to a 16 or 32 second exposure.
We pulled the battery and recharged it, reset the camera to default factory settings, even re-loaded the firmware. No joy.
None of the obvious user errors apply ... the new owner shot with a Epson rangefinder prior to this.
The only thing unusual that happened was when he first got it, and went to put the battery in without a lens on it (body cap on), he accidently tripped the shutter, then turned it off to stop it. But that shouldn't have caused this issue should it?
Any idea what could have happened? :wtf:
Any experience with something like this, or speculation what could have gone wrong out of the blue?
Any thoughts welcome.
Thanks in advance,
-Marc
I recently sold a beautiful silver M8 to a fellow overseas and upon arrival it is acting up. Maybe someone here can help zero in on what's wrong. I got the camera from a forum member and as far as I know it worked fine for him.
The camera always worked perfectly for me ... and I checked it just before shipping. Then removed the battery, boxed it all up in the Leica factory box inside a well packed shipping box and sent it off. Just prior to that I shot a wedding with it with no issues at all.
Now that it has arrived it appears it will not meter correctly. Apparently in dark conditions using two different 3rd party lenses (Canon Serenar f/1.9 and a 75mm Heliar) wide open @ most any ISO, the M8 either does a 32 second exposure in dim light, or overexposes a stop or two. In lower light with the light source in the frame it overexposes 1-2 stops, if the light source isn't in the frame it goes to a 16 or 32 second exposure.
We pulled the battery and recharged it, reset the camera to default factory settings, even re-loaded the firmware. No joy.
None of the obvious user errors apply ... the new owner shot with a Epson rangefinder prior to this.
The only thing unusual that happened was when he first got it, and went to put the battery in without a lens on it (body cap on), he accidently tripped the shutter, then turned it off to stop it. But that shouldn't have caused this issue should it?
Any idea what could have happened? :wtf:
Any experience with something like this, or speculation what could have gone wrong out of the blue?
Any thoughts welcome.
Thanks in advance,
-Marc