Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R-8
From: Grégoire Vandenschrick <vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:05:16 +0200

Mine has #2412219, and Ibought it now two or three month, in second hand,
Leica said it was build in 98'.

I had two times bad display on the back. the led showed strange patterns
just after closing the back. I put the camera on off, opened the back and
cleaned softly the contacts between body and back. It worked.

Leica said me that there had been problems with electrostatic shield in the
early series, improved later, and mine (always according to Leica) doesn't
come from one of these early ones.

So, before any panics, think to clean, or never touch the contacts. I didn't
send the body to leica for this, because after that, it functionned
flawlessly

I will post advice if I encounter other problems

Greg