Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, This would be a touchy thing to try, and will take a delicate touch. But i guess it would be worth the try to get you through the last couple of days. Good luck. Gene -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information