M7 broken-again

[jalLee2001]

One year ago in Phuket thailand, I unpacked my M7 and found the shutter would not fire. However, it would work with a cable release. The camera was obviously "bumped". It looked like it did have some impact damage. The camera was sent back to Leica and repaired. This time the camera was tapped on the top plate (around the shutter area), and the same thing has happened again.

So the symptoms are; it fires at all shutter speeds only with a cable release. The rewind action is very tight. Any ideas?

Does anyone have details of a good camera Leica repair in the chicago area? I have a back up Bessa 2a-but it is not quite the same. I am looking at a M6, Mp or M7. I use AE quite a lot.

 

[disambiguated]

Yeah - stop 'packing' your camera. After you had a problem the first time, that should've served as a lesson to keep your camera on your person when you travel, rather than 'packing' it away, heh.

 

[Turtle]

Yeah - stop 'packing' your camera. After you had a problem the first time, that should've served as a lesson to keep your camera on your person when you travel, rather than 'packing' it away, heh.

Gosh, how helpful.

I would send it back to Leica, with a description of the problem, and get them to re-do the original repair as it sounds like something is bent preventing the actual external release pushing down as it should, hence a small tap potentially letting the parts move out of alignment. The cable works internally remember and so bypasses the silver release we press with our fingers. Maybe Leica overlooked something when repairing it the first time.

 

[kshapero]

Gosh, how frustrating.

 

[jonmanjiro]

Yeah - stop 'packing' your camera. After you had a problem the first time, that should've served as a lesson to keep your camera on your person when you travel, rather than 'packing' it away, heh.

Did you pause to consider that the OP is not a native English speaker? Nahh didn't think so. "Unpack" may have just referred to removing the camera from his camera bag.

 

[Richard G]

Th original post does suggest the camera was out of the line of the owner's sight, subject to bumps and impacts. Subsequently another injury whose precise location is identifiable suggesting significant external force, possibly again when the camera was not within reach of the owner, or sight at least, and not protected from localized impact.

 

[jalLee2001]

I have sent it back to leica, this time the camera was in my possession-and it was nothing more than just that, a bump Sorry for the confusion.

The original purpose of this post was to find out if people had experienced the same problem. And get some ideas on what might be causing the problem.

 

[Johann Espiritu]

My M7 had some problems with the shutter release not moving smoothly. I had it sent to Leica, who repaired it for free. The problem returned a year later.

I sent it back to Leica, who explained to me that the problem is really in the design of the on/off switch around the shutter release collar. Aside from switching off the electronics, it's also really just a physical barrier that prevents the release from moving down. Thus a strong hit could dent and damage it - which is what happened to my camera (while inside a camera bag, due to pressure, I guess).

One option they gave me was to just remove the pin inside the switch. This would always insure smooth movement of the release, but it could mean that it might be accidentally tripped when on the 1/60 or 1/125 shutter speed as switched to "off" (other speeds would not fire when "off" since they're electronically controlled, although the release would physically move). I didn't think this was am issue, so I let them remove the pin. The problem never came back after that!

Hope that helps.

 

[Trius]

Sounds like a bad design, then.

 

[35mmdelux]

No such problem with the two M7s I've owned.

 

[peter_n]

Same here but still this shouldn't be happening. When you return it to Leica you might want to include Johann's comments as a suggestion for them.

 

[jalLee2001]

thanks all, this feedback was what I was looking for.

 

[Johann Espiritu]

Sounds like a bad design, then.

Yeah, I think so, but I can live with the solution they proposed.

 

[BillBingham2]

I'm impressed that they found what appears to be a great work around while it's still in production.

B2 (;->