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X100V high pitched whining?

Started Aug 9, 2020 | Questions
epuiou New Member • Posts: 7
X100V high pitched whining?

Is it normal to hear a constant high pitched whining noise when the camera is on? I can only really hear it if it’s right up against my face in a quiet room. Any ideas what the sound could be? I would take a video but my phone doesn’t pick it up.

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Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,894
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

epuiou wrote:

Is it normal to hear a constant high pitched whining noise when the camera is on? I can only really hear it if it’s right up against my face in a quiet room. Any ideas what the sound could be? I would take a video but my phone doesn’t pick it up.

Nope, mine seems quiet.

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Chris Dodkin
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epuiou wrote:

Is it normal to hear a constant high pitched whining noise when the camera is on? I can only really hear it if it’s right up against my face in a quiet room. Any ideas what the sound could be? I would take a video but my phone doesn’t pick it up.

Depends on your hearing - I advise keeping the camera in a shooting position and not next to your ear

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steppenwolfer Senior Member • Posts: 1,153
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Mine is same. It is quiet annoying. I did not compare to another one. Otherwise mine work normally since day one.

I noticed that I can not hear it when camera is set into video mode and then back to photo mode. But it comes back after power off.

If you will find out more about this please share it here.

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Roland P New Member • Posts: 10
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

Maybe it’s the flash capacitor, ef-x20 flash also got a high pitched sound when recharging. You could try fire the flash and see if you hear same noise afterwards.

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Re: X100V high pitched whining? No...
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Erik Baumgartner wrote:

epuiou wrote:

Is it normal to hear a constant high pitched whining noise when the camera is on? I can only really hear it if it’s right up against my face in a quiet room. Any ideas what the sound could be? I would take a video but my phone doesn’t pick it up.

Nope, mine seems quiet.

I cannot hear any high pitch noise. I think I heard a voice telling me to buy more gear 

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Shinyschnapper
Shinyschnapper Regular Member • Posts: 224
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Mine is quiet.  The only high pitched whining is from the wife that I brought it in the first place.

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minim3 Senior Member • Posts: 1,045
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

epuiou wrote:

Is it normal to hear a constant high pitched whining noise when the camera is on? I can only really hear it if it’s right up against my face in a quiet room. Any ideas what the sound could be? I would take a video but my phone doesn’t pick it up.

No noise on mine....

DDL83 New Member • Posts: 1
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

Mine does the same. Did you ever get a fix for the issue?

Chris Dodkin
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Re: X100V high pitched whining?

DDL83 wrote:

Mine does the same. Did you ever get a fix for the issue?

it's not an issue - it's a feature

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Seagull67
Seagull67 New Member • Posts: 10
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Mine does this too which along with the grinding manual focus ring that has half a millimetre of play in it means I won’t keep it. I never had these problems with earlier versions. The sound is irritating & the play & slight grinding with the focus ring are faults. Not sure how ‘weather sealed’ a focus ring with play in it can be...

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denis-t
denis-t Forum Member • Posts: 55
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

Same here... I recorded a video of that noise :

https://imgur.com/a/qpDrxIa

Do you think it should be a reason to send it back ?

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denis-t Forum Member • Posts: 55
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

Seagull67 wrote:

Mine does this too which along with the grinding manual focus ring that has half a millimetre of play in it means I won’t keep it. I never had these problems with earlier versions. The sound is irritating & the play & slight grinding with the focus ring are faults. Not sure how ‘weather sealed’ a focus ring with play in it can be...

In fact I noticed the same high pitched noise with an old Fuji battery in the camera! With the new one that came with the X100V the noise is gone (or really really quiet). But with an old Fuji battery, the sound is louder. So it might just be the battery and not the camera!

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Doug MacMillan Veteran Member • Posts: 3,695
I think my camera is fine, but...
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...I can't hear much over my wife's high pitched whining.

(Just kidding, she's a very tolerant soul.)

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Joe Bagadonuts Contributing Member • Posts: 680
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Funny, I read the title out of the corner of my eye as “x100v, high priced whining”

Glacier_chen New Member • Posts: 1
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

Hello

My Fujifilm x100v seems to meet the same problem. When I open the camera, I can hear a high-pitched electrical noise. I realized this noise just today, I used it for about one week and I never noticed this noise before.

Your answer is really helpful to me!To clear up misunderstandings,are you mean that the noise is mainly coming from the battery rather than the camera itself?

So if that is true, I can buy a new battery to replace my old one to reduce this noise.

I just bought this camera about 1 week, this problem really annoys me alot.

Thank u!

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Corot2 Senior Member • Posts: 1,697
Never had a problem

I have had the camera since it was released and never a problem

Great camera

If you can still exchange it may be a good idea

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MBPhotographer8 New Member • Posts: 2
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

How is the camera holding up after all these years? I just got a unit with the same issue and am curious if it affects longevity.

Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,894
Re: X100V high pitched whining?

MBPhotographer8 wrote:

How is the camera holding up after all these years? I just got a unit with the same issue and am curious if it affects longevity.

No whining from mine. If it annoys you, have them send you a replacement.

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Night Pixel
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PRE-AF = ON?
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Mine is completely silent since 2020.

Do you have Pre-AF = ON?

The camera will make sounds if Pre-AF=ON because the focus mechanism is always active.

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