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Subject: [Leica] M7 shutter speed problem -- obviously an electronic fault---
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 19:31:40 -0600
References: <E038C752-D426-4DF8-AEE5-F679F674F17E@yahoo.co.uk>

Peter, could your problem have something to do with the auto DX reader and
you might be thinking you have set the ISO manually?



On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> I left the batteries out of the M7 overnight and all day, as someone
> suggested, but then the same problem happens.  Auto doesn't fire at all;
> 1/250th doesn't fire at all; 1/50th fires at 1/8th; 1/30th fires at
> 1/8th;1/15th fires at 1s; 1/8th fires at 2s, with the LED counting down; 
> 1/4
> works as Bulb, it even counts up in the LED display; 1/2 works as 1/2; 1s
> works as 1/1000th; 2s doesn't fire at all; 4s fires as 1/500; Bulbs works 
> as
> 2s, counting down the LED.
>
> Looks like something went wrong in the electronics.  It hasn't been in the
> rain.  I ran a roll of Fujichrome through it about a week or two ago.  They
> all turned out fine.  Looks like the thing just went kaput a couple of 
> weeks
> past my buyer's warranty.
>
> I paid 195,000 yen for the M7, used, from a store in Japan.  I suppose I
> should send the thing to Leica Tokyo and ask for a diagnosis and quote.
>
> I'm really disappointed with it right now....
>
> Peter Cheyne
>
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Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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