What to do? Pay 500 euro to repair my x100?

allineedislight wrote:

WeirdSheep wrote:

Well I should be worrying about the spectre of the dreaded SAB but I don't worry about it, mine has been fine and I'm a believer in that we create our own reality (and often misfortune) so I just enjoy it when I use it and sleep soundly

you shouldn't be worried, if SAB has not yet appeared in your camera by now it won't in the future either. I think the problem of the OP was a dishonest seller who should have sold it as a faulty camera in the first place.

In any case if the serial number of an X100 starts with 12, 13, or 14 then the camera has a high likelihood to develop SAB. If it starts with 21, 22 etc there won't be any SAB problems. 12 means it was produced in the second quarter of 2011, 13 in the third quarter and 14 in the fourth quarter of 2011. 21 is the first quarter of 2012.

Due to the devastating tsunami and earth quake that hit Japan in in March 2011 Fuji halted the production. The batches of X100 with SAB problems were all produced just after restart of the production. So SAB in X100 is an indirect result of the tsunami! The problem in production was later detected and corrected, which is why the later series do not have any SAB issues, nor do any later models like the X100S etc.

Yes I am aware of the serial thing, mine happens to be a 13, but it's fine and I'm not worried about it, it's a 10 year old digital camera, it's survived so far and clearly not every X100 in those ranges failed, but if it does? c'est la vie..