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Fujifilm X-T4 shutter button sadness

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
Rightsaidfred
Rightsaidfred Senior Member • Posts: 2,179
Re: Fujifilm X-T4 shutter button sadness

John Maguire wrote:

I bought a used X-T4 about 3 months ago. It has 8,500 actuations on the shutter (7,000 of which I put on it) and worked great until today.

8500 is nothing.

I have been using a soft release button since I bought it. I liked it because I have small hands / fingers and it reduced reach in a meaningful way. Earlier this month I read that this can cause issues with some cameras but left it on. The shutter button seemed to essentially spontaneously fail in between shots today.

There is no tactile response between unpressed and firing the shutter. It is just a mushy button which starts to focus somewhere between feathered and bottomed out and immediately takes a shot if focus is found. (AF-C, focus priority on, w/ AF-C set to focus w/ shutter.)

Anyone else have shutter issues on the X-T4? Is there any quick fix I can try or am I going to have to pay to get this fixed? Everything I've read so far says that Fujifilm will replace the entire top plate.

I am an X-T4 owner, too, but my shutter button is good. I often work with half pressing it before releasing the shutter.

However, I've occasionally read about that sort of problem here in ther forum. Here's an example, Wobbly power/shutter button on the X-T4.

Not sure about the way of repair.

Regards,

Martin

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