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LEICA

Camera AG · Wetzlar · not the shop

Das Wesentliche,
then 403.

The name on the lens is LEICA. The complaint is about LEICA Camera AG. This page steals the red-dot catalogue look to mock a vanished CCD promise: 2014 goodwill, later an invoice, then HTTP 403, then a film M6 as the “repair.” LEICA: explain it. In writing.

Tuntut penjelasan See the evidence

Read this first

Ini tentang LEICA. Not the LEICA shop.

SATIRE / CONSUMER ARCHIVE. We borrowed the black-and-red manner of a Wetzlar product page to mock a vanished promise. No shop. No login. If you work at Am Leitz-Park 5: this is the catalogue your customers were not given after 2014.

Leica Camera AG told the world, in December 2014, that M9 / M9-P / M Monochrom / M-E cover-glass corrosion would be replaced regardless of the age of the camera, including sensors already swapped, with refunds, while a “permanent technical solution” was sought. This file’s customer was later billed in the €1303 + VAT class (Ursula Brand, 6 Sep 2019), told a 2014 receipt was “not acknowledgeable,” shown a 403 on the official notice URL, then told by Complaint Manager Kirstin Masney that CCD production had stopped in October 2019. In 2025 the public “repair” is still an upgrade list — including analog M6 / MP / M-A.

That sequence is the joke. The joke is not funny if you paid for German quality and got a Forbidden page. Orders 1058152 / 1105973 / 811072. Name redacted. Bank numbers not published. Auto-replies not exhibited. Allegations, not a court verdict.

The object

LEICA M9 — the camera this file is about.

Cited photographs of the CCD body. The red-dot brand is the subject of the satire, so the body is on the page. We typeset LEICA + the red point; we do not ship their trademark file as a fake shop.

LEICA M9M9 · CC BY-SA 3.0 LEICA M9 frontM9 front · CC BY 2.0 LEICA M9 TitaniumM9 Titanium · CC BY 2.0 leica-camera.comCited · leica-camera.com CCD corrosionThis file · corrosion 403This file · 403

Camera stills: Wikimedia Commons as credited. Official homepage capture is a citation of how LEICA Camera AG presents itself now.

Linimasa

LEICA CCD — the years, not a version number.

This site is replaced in place. The chronology is the product.

LEICA M9. First full-frame digital M. Kodak CCD.
LEICA goodwill. Free CCD replacement regardless of age. Then, in this file, the official page went 403.
Five years. Free path narrowed. Older bodies ~€982.
€1303 + VAT. Ursula Brand wrote the figure to this customer.
This Wetzlar file. 1058152. “not acknowledgeable.” Europe-only return. Forbidden.
CCD discontinued. Masney: Oct 2019. Estimate 1105973 still in June 2020.
Still LEICA, still no CCD. Upgrade list adds analog M6 / MP / M-A.
This desk. Satire of LEICA. Twelve questions. Written answers demanded.

The collection

Evidence, hung like a product line.

Captures and mailbox stills, not lifestyle ads.

poster01 — 2014 / paywall / 403 403 office02 — 403 office 40303 — Official URL Forbidden corrosion04 — CCD halos receipt05 — 2014 receipt estimate06 — 1058152 202507 — 2025 film M mail08 — Human mail

The opening reel

The video is the homepage.

Autoplay, muted. No real executive’s face. Send a real letter instead.

The only SKU

A written explanation. Point by point. Not an automatic reply.

Customer Care and Complaint Management, Leica Camera AG, Am Leitz-Park 5, 35578 Wetzlar.

  1. How does 2014 “regardless of age” become 2017/2018 fees and a 2020/2019 stop?
  2. Why did the official 2014 CCD URL return 403? Where is the notice now?
  3. HQ “not acknowledgeable” vs alleged Schmidt HK lifetime CCD coverage?
  4. What would have made the 18 Aug 2014 Monochrom proof acknowledgeable?
  5. Was a point-by-point reply to September 2019 ever issued?
  6. Physical status of 1058152 and 1105973 — date and place.
  7. Why Europe-only return, not Hong Kong?
  8. Reconcile March 2020 close of 1058152 with June 2020 order 1105973.
  9. Last CCD-fit date at Wetzlar vs the June 2020 estimate?
  10. Remedies: Leica glass, third-party reimbursement, this file’s trade-in, refund, or a reasoned no.
  11. Why did some official replacements corrode again?
  12. Will 2014–2020 notices be restored as readable public pages?

Dua belas pertanyaan Human mail

More stills

LEICA, drawn as the problem — not as a shop.

Generated commentary stills plus the price-ladder poster (dates from the public record and from Brand’s letter in this file). Not official advertising.

Parody still: rangefinder and sensor halos01 — halo still (generated) LEICA wordmark 403 parody02 — LEICA / 403 wordmark Unanswered desk still03 — unanswered desk CCD price ladder 2014 to 202504 — €0 → €1303 → no CCD 2014 paywall 403 poster05 — the indictment poster 403 CRT office06 — 403 office

FAQ · for search

What this LEICA CCD archive is — and is not.

Is this the official Leica website?

No. leica.gmbh is a labelled satire and consumer evidence desk about Leica Camera AG. It is not a shop, not firmware, not Customer Care.

What is Leica M9 CCD corrosion?

White halos / spots at small apertures on M9, M9-P, M Monochrom and M-E bodies, documented from 2014 as corrosion of the sensor cover glass (Kodak CCD / Schott-type IR glass). DPReview, LFI and Leica’s own 2014 goodwill text describe it.

Did Leica offer a free replacement?

Yes, publicly, December 2014: free CCD replacement regardless of camera age, including sensors already replaced, plus refunds, plus work on a “permanent technical solution.” Later: five-year limit, then €1303+VAT (Brand, 2019), then “cannot replace” (2020), then an upgrade catalogue that in 2025 includes analog M6.

What is HTTP 403 on the 2014 notice?

The official URL cited in this complaint for “Important Information Concerning the CCD Sensors” returned Forbidden. The text survives on third-party reprints (LFI, DPReview, DSLR-Forum). One of the twelve questions asks where the notice lives now.

What are orders 1058152 and 1105973?

Wetzlar Customer Care / repair order numbers in this file. Estimate, reminder, “not acknowledgeable” proof, Europe-only return, then a linked 2020 successor estimate after the stated October 2019 CCD production stop.

Why satire?

The red-dot catalogue look is the punchline: a company that sold “Das Wesentliche” then served 403. The demand underneath is not a joke: a point-by-point written explanation.

Are auto-replies published?

Not on the public mail index. Human threads only: Brand, Coletta, Kaufmann, Seria, Masney.

How do I search this?

Useful queries: Leica M9 CCD corrosion, CCD-Korrosion Wetzlar, Auftrag 1058152, 403 CCD sensors, €1303 sensor, not acknowledgeable Leica, M6 CCD upgrade 2025, ライカ M9 CCD, 徕卡 CCD 腐蚀.

Glossary

Words a Wetzlar search should still find.

CCD
Charge-coupled device. The Kodak full-frame sensor family in M9 / M9-P / M Monochrom / M-E — not the later CMOS M240 and M10.
Cover glass / ICF
IR-cut filter glass over the sensor. The failure mode is white halos, not ordinary dust. Independent shops replace Schott-type glass; Leica stopped replacing the CCD.
Goodwill 2014
Leica’s public free-replacement programme, regardless of age, including sensors already swapped.
403
HTTP Forbidden. Status of the official 2014 notice URL in this file.
€1303 + VAT
Contribution stated by Ursula Brand, Customer Care, 6 September 2019, cc complaint.management.
1058152 / 1105973 / 811072
Wetzlar order numbers in this archive.
CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program
After parts ended: trade-in toward current cameras, including in 2025 analog M6 / MP / M-A.

Longer English/German landings: /m9-ccd-corrosion/ · /ccd-korrosion/ · /questions/ · /emails/