strange sensor behavior

[HankBar]

Anybody seen a band like this? I know, bad photo, still strange. What happened? M8, 24 mm, UV/IR filter,nice sun above.

Thanks, Henk

[fdigital]

I've seen it before from other m8 owners. Personally I'd be kinda pissed, but you may want to check what other people say first. I remember someone having the same thing, and a member advised that they should see if it happens more regularly afterwards and if so, send it back.

[HankBar]

Thanks Gavin,

I made a whole bunch of photographs in roughly the same situations. In this pic the sun is most clearly in the lens. Maybe it is the combination of sun and filter?

[IdeaDog]

Yup. I've seen it twice (on two different occasions) when shooting directly at a light source (a light bulb). Didn't save samples. Couldn't replicate it. Didn't really try. Kept shooting similar shots and it never happened again on the shoot. I wrote it off as a quirk.

[Gabriel M.A.]

Anybody seen a band like this?
In The Omen. Have it sent to be exorcised at Solms.

Expel de deemons, ow lowd!

(Seriously, it's the hardware; some of them got "lucky". Leica in Germany will repair this under warranty --- just send it directly, not via Leica NJ!!!)

[sandymc]

It's a fairly well known problem. If a very bright light source is just at the right angle on the edge of the image, light strikes the reference pixels on the edges of sensor. These pixels are normally dark, and used to set the black reference, so if light strikes them, you get that. Search on green blob or green streak on the LUF.

Sandy

[HankBar]

Sandy thanks. I forgot to look at that side. Green blobs are different ,but the green streak is mentioned there a lot and that looks like my problem.
I'm afraid I have to live with it. It only occured once.