Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know how they do in Leica, but Sony Tough sd cards are bulletproof. Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 10:26 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote: > Surprised they lasted this long, I only had my M9 a few months before I > had to move to Transcend cards from Sandisk.... > > john > > ?On 04/06/2022, 21:28, "LUG on behalf of Frank Filippone via LUG" > <lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > My precious Monochrom ( M9 Based Digi-Leica) would not accept a memory > card. Just kept telling me that there was no SD card installed. > > > I tried a bunch of other cards. No luck. At this point I saw a BIG > repair bill coming my way..... > > Did a Google search of ... Leica M9 SD Card Problems.... All the > articles were old ( well, what do you expect given the camera is old?) > > Three solutions were offered at that time...... a) contacts on camera > or card were "dirty".... Clean them b) Bad memory card or card reader in > the > camera ( what I feared) and finally, c) In the beginning of the M9, > there were some issues with certain cards not working.... Leica chimed in > and said > they knew about the problem, towards a fix. > > The cards were mostly Sandisk.... > > > Well, the cards I was trying were all Sandisk, Extreme Pro.... I had > 64GB, 32GB, 128GB..... none had worked. > > I did have a pair of Transcend 32GB cards..... tried one and it worked > perfectly. > > The message to leave everyone with.... if your camera acts up,, Google > the problem... and follow the solutions offered. > > I would have expected Leica to fix the incompatibility years ago, but > nope..... > > > What did we do before the Internet? > > > B+W anyone? > > > Frank Filippone > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information