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

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Subject: [Leica] Minor additional woe
From: john at mcmaster.fr (John McMaster)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:17:47 +0200
References: <5C7ABDCC-018D-4934-A61A-B9F9CB407EEB@acm.org> <CAF8hL-GgtXsUFDwmxYz2SCAZgzTb13oatzGN_kYg=6UaDUXRag@mail.gmail.com>

The camera  (M(240)) has been on release for less than 30 months, a good 
battery should last that long....

john

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of Richard Man
Sent: Friday, 7 August 2015 11:14 a.m.
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Minor additional woe

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.
>
>
>




In reply to: Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] Minor additional woe)
Message from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Minor additional woe)