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Fuji XT3 Hot shoe missing screws?

Started Feb 24, 2021 | Discussions thread
JokingJ New Member • Posts: 12
Re: Fuji XT3 Hot shoe missing screws?
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All four screws are installed from inside. If one or two fall out, they would fall into the guts of the camera and it's anybody's guess what will happen next, electrically speaking.

If you got more screws you would have to take the top plate off the camera to install them. This, to me, is major surgery.

So now that I've opened it up, the good news is that the screws can't really fall into the interior of the camera, as the EVF assembly beneath the hotshoe seems to prevent that from happening. Otherwise, you're absolutely right that short circuits could be a problem (there are actually a surprising number of hand-soldered connections in there to boot, and those could easily short with a screw in the right place).

As for "major surgery," yes indeed... Possible and decidedly not fun, but requires considerable disassembly to get the top plate off, and even more annoyance to remove the EVF assembly.

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