Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG: My intrepid M8 locked up this morning while I was shooting photos from a boat in southern India. No, I didn't drop it in the water! I was using the 75/1.4 lens and when I pressed the shutter button, instead of going snkclk, the M8 just went snk and "Shutter Fault" showed up on the screen. When I removed the lens, I could see that the bottom edge of the top blade of the shutter is stuck slightly behind the top edge of the second blade. It looks like I could just flip the edge up and over and everything would be fine, but my business manager insists that I write to the LUG for advice before I touch anything inside the M8. I'm used to making repairs on my film M's but haven't attempted much inside the digital ones. We have four more days in India and I'd hate not to have my M8 for Mumbai. Has anybody seen this fault and fixed it? TIA for any advice. Tina Tina Manley http://leicatraveler.blogspot.com/ www.tinamanley.com