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

I think you made the right call, they're getting harder to find now. I made the mistake of selling my first one and bought another one later on. It's already a classic and I don't think that will ever change. It might not be the fastest compared to newer cameras but I really have no complaints with it, the focusing is perfectly adequate speed wise for me, and it does give a rather lovely rendering to the images it produces, as well as having a sublime lens on it. I'm sure the newer models are great, but there's just something about the mk1, it's simple to use and operate, no fancy frills to get in the way, it just does what it needs to do with minimal fuss. I have a fondness for the older Fuji models that I don't get with the newer ones, good though they are, I guess I just prefer simplicity over speed and bells and whistles. Enjoy your repaired X100, you'll love it, it's a gem.

Thanx!

The 140 page manual is already encouraging compared to the 460 page manual of the Lumix GX8...

So maybe in the end it's the way to go when wanting the classic x100: get an old broken one for not too much money and get it checked and repaired by Fuji, so you know what you have after.

And I think one of the main reasons to prefer the old x100...

MickRS wrote:

Thanx!

The 140 page manual is already encouraging compared to the 460 page manual of the Lumix GX8...

So maybe in the end it's the way to go when wanting the classic x100: get an old broken one for not too much money and get it checked and repaired by Fuji, so you know what you have after.

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 

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..

Oh I will, I'm sure. Can't wait to have it back and start playing with it...

Mine is a 13. But according to Fuji it's not the SAB issue. Either way, there's an interesting history story to tell about the camera...