Leica recently discontinued its replacement service for M9 cameras afflicted by the widespread "sensor corrosion" issue that surfaced back in 2014. Now a new report claims that it wasn't "damaged" coatings that caused the corrosion, but the fact that protective coatings were inexplicably left out completely.
Leica no longer has access to the CCD image sensor inside the Leica M9 series of cameras. As a result "defective sensors cannot be replaced" moving forward, and you'll need to upgrade to an M10 or another CMOS-based Leica camera if this happens to you.
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Those interested in starting or adding to an expensive collection of cameras may want to head over to eBay very soon. That's because movie star Sylvester Stallone, or more accurately his brother Frank Stallone, is in the process of selling the Leica M9 used in the movie The Expendables 2.
If you're a fan of Leica's digital rangefinders and have been skeptical of DxOMark's ability to determine sensor quality through its rigorous tests, you might want to skip over the lab's newly published test results on Leica's M series sensors.
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Back in August, it came to light that some of Leica's $7,000 M9 cameras had a problem in which they would corrupt the SD card being used -- a problem that caused one photographer to permanently lose work after a day of shooting.
With a suggested retail price of £19,800 (currently about $32,000) and only 500 units in existence, Leica's limited edition M9 Titanium probably isn't a camera you're ever going to lay eyes on in real life. When it was announced back in September of last year, we predicted that most of them wouldn't see the light of day and would be placed immediately into collectors' vaults. Luckily for us, someone decided to actually unbox (gasp!) one of these babies (camera #164), allowing us to see what it's like to receive such an absurdly expensive camera.
Leica's announcements at Photokina have been pretty dull so far compared to some of the other cameras that have been unveiled. Aside from announcing a Panasonic LX5 rebranded as a Leica D-LUX 5 and a Panasonic FZ100 rebranded as a Leica V-Lux 2, they've also announcement a "Titanium" version of the M9 digital rangefinder of which only 500 pieces will be made.