I love it when someone who doesn't even own that camera makes remarks like this about the users 😉
For your information, this problem affects EVERY camera body that has the Kodak sensor. It's not some or a few, it is every piece ever manufactured. Normally you do a recall for such thing.
It only affects a few Kodak sensors because only a few will be cleaned by inexperienced owners, the majority will be cleaned by experienced owners or Leica themselves.
But yours is a common mistake in not looking at the broader picture. The Leica M9 was the first digital camera for some people, or at least they only had a P&S before it. Many Leica users had been hanging on with their film camera's before the M9 because they wanted full format so their lenses worked as they wanted, a 28mm Summicron would still have the same coverage for example. So unlike say a Canon or Nikon forum where sensor cleaning topics were old hat because everybody already did it on a regular basis the Leica forums were inundated with the most basic questions about dust and how to clean it. Indeed many people didn't even know they were looking at the affects of dust on their pictures. So do you expect if not a rash of accidents from nervous owners being pulled one way and the other by 'cleaning is easy' and 'send it to Leica' messages? And Leica didn't help with their advice, 'take it to your nearest dealer for a free clean', doesn't do much good if you aren't near a nearest dealer.
So the M9 was essentially a camera for digital newbies for many current Leica owners, not to mention the new adopters wanting the 'Leica ethos' in an easy digital form (with film being 'dead'). And of course they arrive and want it to be just like their Canon and Nikon, 'I need this', 'why doesn't it do that', so they get the worm in their brain that the spent all this money and what do they get for it, no buffer to speak of, manual focusing, and when they discover they have no patience to learn to focus off it goes to Leica for adjustment because
it is wrong, not themselves.
And then you have the Leica owners who already have a good set of lenses and other film cameras, and they got over the 'investment' aspect of ownership many years before the M9, they'd seen glitches before, they'd even owned other FF digital cameras before, and the price of an M9 was far less than two or three of their lenses. Dare I say that this changes ones perspective? Instead of sweating about perceived problems and the expense they can instead see the value in the M9, how good it was/is, and what it could do for their photography.
Now I can't put myself into another group of owners just to share your anxiety, to wallow in worries about why I can't get along with rangefinder focusing or engage in the fantasy Leica are trying to screw me, but I can see where other people are coming from and why they may think one thing and not another. From some of the previous posts this is a trait of understanding that has clearly been distorted by listening to the wrong people, having individual bad experiences, or just having a big mouth and don't even own a Leica. But they are all listening to prejudices and they need to take a step back. There have been well over 100,000 Leica M9's made, so, where are the 100,000 complaints?
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