Leica Diary - Everything within Reason

Ever since the release of the Leica M9 in 2009 I wanted one of them. But, at the time I didn't have the funds to acquire such a device…. until recent.

Last week I bought myself a Leica M9 (black) along with two Zeiss lenses and an additional battery. The glass of my (second) choice was the Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm ZM T* and the Zeiss C-Sonnar 1.5/50mm ZM T*. These lenses were second choice, because I'd rather had the Leica versions of those lenses, but these are kinda hard to get your hands on (extremely long waiting lists).

UPDATE: In the meantime, I acquired a 35mm Summicron-M f/2, and a 50mm Summilux-M f/1.4 Asph. The Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar 1.5/50mm ZM T* is for sale at this moment.

The following posts should represent my experiences with the Leica M system camera, and I hope to address both the good and the bad things about this legendary camera system.

Note that this 'blog' holds the oldest post first. The reason for this is that you can read it in a chronological fashion. So the updates will be at the end.

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Friday

Dec162011

Leica M9 Firmware Update

Friday, December 16, 2011 at 15:15

In September I reported that there were some issues with the Leica M9(-P) and certain SD memory cards (SanDisk in particular). They released an update for this problem in the beginning of November.

Last week they released another update for the SD card problem. Something to do with the initialization (formating) of some cards. The update (v1.176) for the Leica M9 (and M9-P) can be downloaded from the Leica Service pages.

Bug fixes:

Fix of a seldom-occurring error when initializing the SD-card.
With that firmware update, we revoke the constrictions made with respect to the compatible cards. Generally speaking, the Leica M9/M9-P is compatible with any SD card that is in accordance with the respective standards. Unfortunately, it is impossible to test the compatibility of every single card of every single supplier. All cards available from SanDisk have been compatibility-tested and the firmware version 1.1.76 ensures their proper function.

I must mention that I didn't have any problems after the v1.174 firmware update, and I haven't run into problems with this one as well.

Willem |