Zeiss 28mm ZM does not work on Leica M6

<p>Hello<br>

I just bougt brand new Zeiss ZM 28mm lens, the lens is new never used, I have Leica M6 and 50mm Summicron, both works fine, but when I put Zeiss 28mm lens on the body , lightmeter starts blinking and the no meter what you do, I thought the bettery went dead so replased the camera with new betteries, and it is still blinking, so I took 28mm off and put on 50mm Cron and meter started to work fine as usual,<br>

Can anyone explane what is going on and what to do, I paid $1000 for 28mm ZM lens, but I can not use it on the camera, I can not determin the exposure with it,<br>

Thanks<br>

Alex</p>

<p>Or I solved it , guys, nevermind this post, the lens is fine and works well, I just forgot to take the lens cap off, sorry for taking everyone time<br>

All is working now<br>

Alex</p>

How brave of you to admit it ;)

Good luck with the lens. It is my favorite focal length for the M6.

<p>Try this with an M9. It is maddening. The camera seems to have seized up. None of the menus work. An absolute age goes buy while you're trying to figure it out. And it's worse if you have the menu set to do a second similar length exposure for reducing noise. You'd think one mishap like this would lead to lesson learned. But no. That's the beauty of my tabbed Summicron with reversible hood: not possible to take a photo with the lenscap on.</p>

<p>My M2 works just fine with lens cap on. Some of my best pictures were taken with lens caps on. :-)</p>

<p>So true Yuki.<br /> In the mid 70's I was shooting a Can-Am race. Got a great shot with my M4 of Bruce McLaren having a massive accident where he flipped the car in a corner.<br /> Got a sequence of about 4 quick shots (I was within 50' of the accident).<br /> Yup...lens cap on.</p>

<p>I feel so old.<br>

I just had it pointed out that Bruce McLaren died in 1970.<br>

It was the 1969 Edmonton race that the above happened...44 years ago.<br>

And to think at about that time I couldn't 'trust anyone over 25'<br>

(any old 'hippies' will know what I mean)</p>

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<p>Welcome to the world of rangefinders Alex. Some of my best photos were "taken" w/ the lens cap on :(</p>

<p>I never had this issue w/ SLRs, obviously. On my TLRs and medium format folders (one has a rangefinder, the other is scale focus), I never have lens caps on them, so no worries. In fact, I never use a lens cap on anything anymore, just a yellow filter and a hood. Let's not get into how many photos I've shot with no film in a camera though.</p>

<p>Those Can Am cars were awesome, weren't they Bob? Don't feel bad about the trust thing, these days I don't trust anyone but the wife and the cat (and the cat is far smarter and trickier than I am, so I'm not sure how far I trust her). It's a different world us old hippies live in today.</p>

Good to figure out within 5 minutes :)

 

Fortunately I have a M7 and on AE you can not make this "mistake".

<p>One of the advantages of an SLR ! </p>

<p>Send it to a camera repair guy and have it removed, Gus Lazzari is really good.</p>

<p>My M6 flashes wildly to correct me; and ever since I replaced my M2 with a Hexar RF, I haven't fired a shutter with the lens cap on. They are right who say that TTL meters are useful.</p>

My Fuji X100 goes nuts when I turn it on and don't remove the lens cap. Twice or three times I thought the camera was fried, the batteries were dead, some bug had taken over... and then I saw the lens cap, staring back at me, and felt quite inadecuate.

 

When it comes to my M6TTL, I simply take the lens caps of and put them in my pockets whenever I take them out. I recommend you do the same. And enjoy the Zeiss lens!