XT-2 shutdown

[twopointeight]

I've been shooting an XT-2 body for 3 years and about 100,000 clicks without any problems, until today. After a lens change the body wouldn't turn on. I checked all the physicval controls and nothing had inadvertently moved. I took out the battery, waited 30 seconds and put it back in. It worked. Is this something that is age related, (the XT-2 not me). My backup is an Xpro2, but I rely on the flip down screen of the XT-2. Time to buy another body and semi-retire my used one?

 

[majid]

Did you upgrade to firmware 4.0? If so, it has been withdrawn for a bug that sounds like that, and the new firmware is basically the 3.x firmware, until they fix the bug.

The X-T2 was only announced 2 years ago, BTW.

 

[willie_901]

I doubt it is age related. It could just be a bit of contamination on the lens-body contacts. Cleaning lens contacts after 100,000 clicks is not unusual maintenance.

If this happens again, I would carefully use a stiff pencil eraser and gently polish the contacts on the lens. Or, if it then happens with a different lens, then I'd clean the body contacts. Obviously you want to avoid any eraser debris falling into the camera body. Electronics supply stores (if you can find one) sell a contact cleaning tool for this specific purpose.

A more conservative approach would be to use a Q-Tip dipped in lens cleaning solution instead of an eraser.

 

[Dogman]

I don't think it's use or age-related. It's a little gremlin built into the Fuji cameras. It has happened to me with an XPro1 when the camera was fairly new. Pulling the battery for a few seconds fixed it and no problems since. It probably was due to something I did at the time but I can't be sure.

 

[twopointeight]

Yes, I stand corrected on the age of the XT-2. It just seems like I've had it longer? Yes, it happened during a lens change from the 23mm 1.4 to the 56mm 1.2, the latter a lens I don't use too often. Maybe I hot swapped? I hadn't change FW from version 3 to version 4 yet, so its not that. Good suggestion to clean the contacts. Thanks all.

 

[twopointeight]

There's another possibility. The SD cards I used were 8 GB, one was 95 MB/S, the other was 45 MB/s. Sandisk Extreme Pro but several years old. Some of the images didn't transfer from my card to the computer. I think the card(s) were corrupted and made the camera act strangely. Reset all on the camera and will see if its resolved?

 

[Bill W]

This recently happened to me earlier this week with my X-Pro 2, purchased 3/2016. After a few tries it came back to life. I pulled the battery two or three times. So far, no further problems.