Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Minor additional woe
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 02:14:12 -0700
References: <5C7ABDCC-018D-4934-A61A-B9F9CB407EEB@acm.org>

Well, it could always be possible that the battery they give you is not a
new one.... rather than checking for particular battery characteristics, it
may just check for the manufacturing date.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> As soon as I installed the new firmware in my M, the ?info? button
> produced, in additional to the standard information, an ominous message in
> red: ?Check battery age?.
>
> I called Leica tech support, my theory, in view of the expired firmware,
> being that they sent me a camera that had been sitting a long time on the
> shelf. But the tech guy said that the M (240) had not been in existence
> long enough for a battery to elicit that message. (I wonder that what
> battery characteristic the firmware is measuring). So he is fielding my
> complaint to the marketing people and I await a phone call.
>
> Herb
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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