It is. My first M8 came non-functioning with a "shutter fault" message every time I tried to trip the shutter. It took two months to get Leica to return a phone call. I finally, through the LUG, got the email of the president of the US division of Leica, and he replaced the camera. It came non-functioning with a card error and Leica would not return my phone calls (you have to convince them that you are a professional photographer or they won't acknowledge you). I waited a year or so until the next firmware upgrade came out and that seemed to fix the problem, for about a month. It has been in a drawer until this week when I installed the latest firmware upgrade. Same problem. An error message of "SD card is write protected!".
When I bitched about it on the LUG (after someone referred to Leica's customer support as the best in the world), I was excoriated and ended up quitting the LUG. On a positive note, I bought a few Pentaxes and have lived happily ever after, though I lie awake some nights thinking about how much I spent on a camera that only shot about 8 frames. That's about $900 per frame, and they were just test shots. Think I can sell them on ebay? They are of my electric light meter on the side of my house, and I was using a Pentax 43 LE lens. Regards, Jeffery ______________________ Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA www.400tx.com On May 27, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Hmmm. Sounds like a camera problem. > On May 27, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> I seem to always buy SanDisk, and not one of them will work in a Leica M8. I >> just ordered a Kingston in hopes that it will work. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jeffery >> ______________________ >> Jeffery Smith >> New Orleans, LA >> www.400tx.com >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 27, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> I've had two Transcend cards fail almost right away. Transcends that didn't >>> fail immediately seem okay. But I'm most fond of Sandisk Extreme. Never had >>> one fail. The 16 gig card that I now use most often has about 20,000 >>> exposures on it. I'm going to stick with Sandisk going forward. >>> >>> Paul >>> On May 27, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >>> >>>> Ah geez... noted! >>>> >>>> :) >>>> -c >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Eric Featherstone >>>> <eric.featherst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 27 May 2012 21:37, Christine Nielsen <ch...@inielsen.net> wrote: >>>>>> For the record, it was a PNY Professional 8gb Class 10 card... >>>>>> Honestly, I've never paid too close attention to the cards, beyond >>>>>> size, and I do look for class 10s these days. I do have some SanDisk >>>>>> Extremes, too... and a couple of others I've picked up in drugstores >>>>>> in "emergencies"... Maybe it's time to pay attention... >>>>> >>>>> For what it's worth, the only cards I've had fail were PNY, and both >>>>> of mine failed. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Eric >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
