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

Started 4 months ago | Discussions thread
BobEaston New Member • Posts: 7
Re: Made my decision...
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allineedislight wrote:

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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.

Not related to the OP's problem, but I think this info solves my mystery. My X100 has an 11 serial number (ie Q1 2011) and I've always wondered why only 12, 13 & 14 serial numbers were mentioned in relation to the SAB issue. The EXIF "Internal Serial Number" field shows a date (production or firmware?) of 2011:03:05, which, assuming yyyy:mm:dd format like the rest of the EXIF date fields, is just a few days before the tsunami. I guess it must have been in one of the last batches shipped before the disaster. Thanks for helping join the dots!

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