[Leica] M8 Shutter Fault, Help!

[summarex at hotmail.com (Javier Perez)]

Wow!
 
I've been in obsolete camera heaven too long!
I had no idea M8 shuitters could derail so easily.
I have gotten swabs stuck in EOSes a few times
and they do jam, but removing the swab and then  
pulling and reinserting battery resets them just fine. 
To make things worse the M8 inquestion failed all by itself!
 
Anyway, back to the isssue at hand. I had not read the original
post. If it's under warrantee i wouldn't touch it or I would
do so making sure not to leave any evidence of tampering.
 
Javier
> From: hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> To: lug@leica-users.org> Subject: RE: 
> [Leica] M8 Shutter Fault, Help!> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:43:37 +1000> > 
> Tina, maybe you have already decided. I can imagine your frustration at 
> the fault developing.> I am apparently a lone voice here, but...> As it is 
> under warranty I would NOT attempt to fix it myself. Yes you might get 
> lucky, but I ask you to consider the situation where> the Leica technician 
> looks at your faulty shutter and can see that there has been mechanical 
> contact. However unfair people may> consider that, they could refuse a 
> warranty claim in this case. > For example LFI reports M8's arriving for 
> repair where the shutter closed during sensor cleaning. This is attributed 
> to people using> 'B' instead of the menu 'sensor clean' selection. Yes I 
> understand that there is already mechanical damage to your shutter and 
> you> may not make it worse..> Best of luck getting it resolved. I would be 
> shooting with whatever else you packed until you get home.> Cheers> Geoff> 
> > -----Original Message-----> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Shutter Fault, 
> Help!> > Tina writes from India:> > > 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.> > Unfortunately: yes I have seen it, and no I did not fix it.> > 
> If memory serves (a sometime thing) that sounds *exactly* like what > 
> happened to my first M8 last May after around 30 days of ownership. I > 
> remember discussing it with SonC and some others via email at the time > 
> (it of course happened on a weekend, but I was at a dog show in Shawnee > 
> Oklahoma, not half a world away) and I thought I had a photo of the hung > 
> up shutter but I can't now find it. What happened, after some phone > 
> calls that Monday, I wound up shipping it to Leica NJ and they replaced 
> it.> > Now this is the hazy part: I vaguely remember a later phone > 
> conversation with Robert Fisk (who was then in the service department, I > 
> understand he has since departed Leica) about whether I could have fixed > 
> it myself and he said 'no'.> > Having said that, if I were in your 
> situation I would give it a try > anyway, as has previously been 
> discussed.> > Good luck!> > --Bob> > > 
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