Category Archives: Leica M9

Leica Camera issued an update on the M9 / SD card compatibility issue: A specially set up team at Leica Camera AG has been working in close collaboration with SD memory card manufacturers on an intensive investigation of possible causes for the phenomenon reported by Leica M9 users. As no clear pattern has so far emerged […]

Based on the last stament from Leica Camera AG, “There have been 15 cases of this problem, which is equal to 0.05% of the total units sold” we can conclude that Leica has sold 30,000 M9 cameras since 09/09/09. This equals to approximately 40 cameras a day.

Leica Camera has recently become aware of customers experiencing compatibility issues related to select types of new memory cards when used in the Leica M9. First of all, we would like to thank you all for the lively participation on our call for assistance to solve the SD-card issue with the M9. With this information, […]

Here is a video illustrating a scenario when images from the M9 will be lost: Update: it seems that the issue described in this video is different from the original post by Gil Lavi.

My last post got me wondering how many people are using Leica M camera professionally (i. e. earning money from the pictures you take with it). If you own a Leica M camera, please vote: <a href=”http://polldaddy.com/poll/5350465/”>If you own a Leica M camera, are you using it professionally?</a>

Photographer Gil Lavi described on his blog in details his experiences with a brand new Leica M9 camera and different SanDisk memory cards, mainly from the Ultra/Extreme series. His camera crashed on several occasions and he lost multiple images, some of which were written as 0 KB file size. Similar issue occurred with a second M9 camera and different SanDisk memory […]