CLA Service for Leica M8 and M9 Cameras

Below you will find a range of repair services and upgrades we can provide.

When your camera arrives at our facility we will always perform a full preliminary inspection and assessment of the unit’s condition. We’ll get in touch if we discover any other underlying issues such as corrosion or other maintenance you might want to consider.

When we perform a CLA we will check what needs servicing and will perform work on the unit accordingly. If you have any specific areas in mind to be worked on, please make a note of this in the note’s section below.

If you have any questions regarding these services, upgrades or anything else about your Leica please feel free to send us an email or give us a ring and we’d be more than happy to walk you through our services!   contact@kolarivision.com +1 844 565 2741

CLA Service Details:

• Deep Body Clean:
  • Our Kolari certified technicians will carefully clean external components, and will perform a professional sensor cleaning. We’ll check the viewfinder for fog and if present will clean both the front and rear sides of all glass elements in the top plate to remove any fog build up over time. If the existing skin is coming loose we can replace any old, failing skin glue with new strong adhesive tape to ensure the body skin stays securely in place.

• Mechanical Re-lubrication:
  • If the rangefinder lever arm and wheel are not moving correctly we will re-apply long last lubricant. This ensures that the rangefinder properly interacts with the lens and the lens focus position matched the rangefinder readout.

• Rangefinder Calibration:
  • Have you ever had your images come out with the focus short or long or do your rangefinder’s focus cues have a visible vertical misalignment even when you’re zeroed in? If so you may have a horizontal or vertical rangefinder misalignment that needs recalibrating. Our technicians will verify the unit’s rangefinder and if this needs adjustment we will accurately recalibrate the focus point and focus cues.

Optional Rear Screen Quartz Glass Replacement:

• We can now replace the original rear screen glass with new, scratch and fingerprint resistant, anti-reflective coated quartz glass. This is a replacement of the original plastic screen with much harder quartz removing the need for additional screen protectors. This is similar to the modification on Leica M9-P models that used a sapphire screen glass which, while very hard, is more brittle than quartz.

Please note: If you have a sticky/glitchy menu wheel or mode dial, we are able to address these issues but cannot cover this under our standard CLA service. Please let us know ahead of ordering and we can arrange an additional service to have this addressed. 

We also sell repaired Leica M9 Cameras with full warranty coverage available! Check our inventory here.