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Leica Adds SL3 Option to CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program

December 5, 2024

Leica has updated the options for its CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program to include the recently introduced SL3 mirrorless camera along with a bundled M-Adapter-L. As we previously reported, corroded CCD sen...

Leica Adds M11-P, M11M and Q3 Options to CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program

David Farkas

November 28, 2023

Leica has announced new three camera options for its CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program. As we previously reported, corroded CCD sensors can no longer be replaced since the sensors are out of production, but...

Latest Update to CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program Adds M11, SL2-S and Q2 Monochrom Options

David Farkas

February 16, 2023

Leica has announced new pricing and camera options for its CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program. As we previously reported, corroded CCD sensors can no longer be replaced, but M9 owners can still take advantage of special pricing to upgrade to a model in the ...

Price Increases on Leica CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program

David Farkas

March 31, 2021

Along with the upcoming April 1, 2021 price increase, Leica has announced new pricing across the board for its CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program. Just as we reported last year, corroded M9 sensors can no lo...

Leica No Longer Offering CCD Sensor Replacement, Adds New Upgrade Options

David Farkas

August 11, 2020

Leica has issued a statement that production of CCD sensors for M9-based models has now been discontinued. This means that going forward, defective sensors or ones exhibiting sensor corrosion cannot be replace...

Leica Updates CCD Corrosion Upgrade Program

David Farkas

January 20, 2020

Leica has just updated the CCD Corrosion Upgrade Program once again, eliminating discontinued models and adding additional camera options. The program started in 2015 as an alternative to sending an affected camera in for service. Recently, the price for a st...

Leica Updates CCD Corrosion Upgrade Program with New M10-P & M10-D Options, Revised Pricing

David Farkas

March 28, 2019

Leica has just updated the CCD Corrosion Upgrade Program once again, this time lowering prices, eliminating discontinued models, and adding additional camera options. The program started in 2015 as an alternat...

Price Increased on Leica CCD Sensor Replacement

David Farkas

December 19, 2018

At the end of 2014, Leica officially acknowledged the CCD sensor corrosion problem that started appearing on many M9, M9-P, M Monochrom and M-E camera bodies. The corrosion issue, identified by unusual spots on...

Leica M10 Added to CCD Corrosion Upgrade Program

Josh Lehrer

July 2, 2018

At last! Leica has added the M10 to their CCD corrosion upgrade program. We have been patiently waiting for a while, and now owners of CCD cameras affected by the corrosion issue have the option to upgrade to the latest member of the M family. Also, in line w...

Leica Updates Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Pricing

David Farkas

November 27, 2017

Leica has updated their pricing on the CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Program. The main changes here are increases to the upgrade cost to the M (Typ 240), M-P (Typ 240) and the M Monochrom (Typ 246). There are no...

Leica Updates CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade Pricing for SL (Typ 601)

David Farkas

July 17, 2017

In light of the recent price reduction on the Leica SL (Typ 601), Leica USA has just issued an update for the CCD Sensor Corrosion Upgrade program. After the adjustment, upgrading to an SL from a CCD-based M ca...

Leica Offers New Upgrade Options for CCD Sensor Corrosion with Q and SL Choices

David Farkas

June 15, 2017

As we previously reported in early 2015, Leica began offering special upgrade pricing to owners of CCD-based M cameras who experience sensor corrosion. While some users have opted to just get their sensors replaced and wait for their cameras to come back from ...

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