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Beautiful Photographs David!!! WOW!

Very nice work, I hope others post too.

Jack

Very good news.

Fixed.

Thanks to Kelsey Fains of Leica USA, and the fast acting technical wizards in Germany.

Let the jobs begin!

-Marc

David Farkas;4496 wrote: I just tried shooting the 70 CS both ways on an S (Type 006) with latest firmware. I looked at the files with Opanda iEXIF viewer and in PS CS 6. There is no field for shutter type used. So, no, it's not possible.

Thank you for testing and confirming. I raised this with a Leica S representative in Europe, he found…[Read more]

Thanks Mark!

Yeah, it seems Germany can fix this and asked for a second IDSO 160 DNG shot of a uniform grey unfocused surface which I sent yesterday.

Kelsey confirmed that once you load this calibration to eliminate the dead pixel that's causing the red line, it is permanent solution and you just reload the most current firmware or any…[Read more]

Jack,

You should have joined us on the Everglades trip. It was the perfect location for the 24mm. I gotta get one.

Mark

Marc,

I had this happen on my S2 and Leica Germany used one of my DNG files to create a custom firmware. Also, future firmware updates do not affect the custom firmware.

Mark

I really like my 50mm Lux ASPH in chrome, it is beautiful and an excellent optic, however I wish it were a bit lighter.

Thanks everyone!

Fortunately, the affected files were few, and not all that critical. I easily did a pixel row selection and used Content Aware Fill in PS6 to correct them.

If I had a lot of files like this, I suppose I could write an action and batch it to all files.

I have been in contact with Kelsey Fain, S2 Product Specialist,…[Read more]

Jack MacD;4479 wrote: RVB,
Yes .8 times 24 is indeed 19.2 not 18.6.
This was a test for Josh and David and either:
1. neither saw my error in reporting or
2. were too nice to think they should correct the error, or
3. starting to worry that I would want to return the lens to Solms to have them make it a 23.25 mm.
4. Too busy…

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erlingmm;4480 wrote: Just tried a CS lens for the first time on my S2. Is it possible to see from metadata whether I have used the CS or the normal shutter?
– ErlingM

I just tried shooting the 70 CS both ways on an S (Type 006) with latest firmware. I looked at the files with Opanda iEXIF viewer and in PS CS 6. There is no field for…[Read more]

I didn't even know that myself, thank you for the tip about the SDXC cards!

No firmware updates have been made available yet for the new S, so you will not see anything in the Owner's Area. Leica does not allow you to re-install firmware, so they do not make the current version available for download.

Sorry to hear that Marc, I had a similar problem and Eric Chan helped me out. Please take a look to salvage the existing files.

http://www.reddotforum.com/showthread.php/410-Any-ideas-on-the-purple-line-in-the-following-images

fotografz;4490 wrote: Murphy's Law says … if it can go wrong, it'll go wrong at the worse time.

I…

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Sorry to hear this, Marc. Wasn't there a thread here about the same issue? I think I recall someone mentioning that sending a file to Solms would suffice. Leica would map out the bad row and send you a firmware fix …

Ouch!
Very sorry to see your name attached to this post.

I believe that the fix is not as difficult as one would think. You send it back, they do a software fix and it's solved. Of course, that means sending it back.

I know there was a program someone did for M8 files that allowed you to accomplish it yourself, but of course on each…[Read more]

Michael Zeleny;4484 wrote: This is not as reassuring as it might be with a report of remaining Kodak sensor stock at Solms.

actually I don't think Leica would ever run out of replacements as under their faulty Sensor replacement policy they would have to replace the whole Camera to the latest S and scrap for parts the faulty one.. err !!……[Read more]

I learned photography on a FED-3, moving to a Nikon F2AS, and thence to a couple of M6 Leicas. I sold my cameras at the end of the last millennium, getting by with disposables and digital point-and-shoots, until buying into the S2 system three years ago. My shoots are split evenly between amateurish product photography with two Broncolor A2L kits…[Read more]

Josh Lehrer;4424 wrote: Because the sensor cracking issue is a known manufacturer defect, it will be a free repair for the lifetime of the camera (or at least as long as parts are available) so Leica will repair the cracked sensor free of charge even if the camera is out of warranty.

This is not as reassuring as it might be with a report of…[Read more]