[LRflex] Re: DM-R Adventure

David and Alan:  You both appear to be remarkably patient.  One might have 
expected an outburst of four letter words after spending 5,000 bucks and 
having such problems.

Alan:  Sorry to know of your problems.  How bothersome to travel to a 
special location, spend the time and money to set up for a special shoot, 
and have the camera fail.  I am a very big supporter of Leica Camera, but 
such problems with a "new unit" must make us wonder who is in charge in 
Solms.  To say that one is surprised would be understating the situation.

Are you contemplating returning the DMR?

Elliot
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Young" <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:46 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: DM-R Adventure


> Alan Siegel moaned:
>
>
>>The camera was mounted on a tripod and after 5 or 6 shots nothing
>>happened when I pushed the shutter button, except I noticed the EV
>>reading on the back would show EV 0.0 after I pushed the shutter
>>button. I had plenty of battery power left, but I tried the
>>following steps to get it working again.
>>
>>I turned it off and on several times,I recharged the battery, and
>>replaced the SD card with another, nothing I did made any difference.
>
> <<snip>>
>
>
>>  My concern is will it happen again, and if so, how often.
>
>
> Good Mornin' Alan!
>
> I cannot say that I've had your situation, but it is definitely a
> contact problem.  I say this because on several occasions, during
> "show and tell", I've popped the back off to show how you can still
> put film in the R8.  When I put it back together, it fails to work
> about 2/3rds of the time!  Doing as you did, just turning it off,
> reseating the back and (often) winding the film lever, has always got
> it going again.  I've never had it fail, once working, until I did
> 'show and tell" again, or was removing the back to clean the sensor
> (like you, with a blower, no brush).  Then, one or two 're-seats"
> seems to do the trick.
>
> I'm going to experiment with some contact preservative I have (about
> $75 for 1 fl. oz.) and will report to the list as to whether it makes
> any difference or not.
>
> Sorry to hear of your problem, but inquiring minds want to
> know...  who IS your dealer?  He sounds like a gem!
>
> Cheers!
>
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