Adorama has the 56mm in stock again now (inclusive 4% reward). But for how long? So act fast if you’ve waited for this lens and click here to grab it.

Fuji XF 56mm: [shopcountry 21554]

After an amazing response to our giveaway with Fujirumors.com, Ting is excited to announce the grand prize winner of the Fuji X-T1 and the secondary winners. Congrats to the following:

Grand Prize winner of a Fuji X-T1: Danny

Secondary Winners of a Ting Swag Pack: Gilbert M, Sami R, Justin L, and Peng W.

Thanks to all who entered! We’ll be contacting all winners personally and we hope you enjoy your prize.

Ting is a mobile service provider that offers no contracts, great rates and no-hold customer support. 98% of people would save on their monthly phone bill with Ting! If you’d like to learn more about Ting, head over to fujirumors.ting.com – You’ll get $25 a new Ting device or $25 in service credit for signing up. If you haven’t done so already, click on the Savings Calculator to see how much you could be saving with mobile that makes sense.

“Fixing the X-T1’s will be put in front of everything else.” That’s what FujifilmUSA told to FR-reader Wally.

And now, on the FujiUS site here you can find the X-T1 serial numbers that might be affected by the light leak problem. As FR-reader LetThereBeLight told me: “In the U.S. serial numbers 41A05201 or higher are safe and anything under that is possibly affected.”

Kaizen is fine, the firmware updates even to discounted cameras are great (even though it means sacrificing sales earnings for customer loyalty as a Fuji manager told us here), but it’s when things go wrong that you seriously test the customer service. And now, only days after the problem arose, we have an official fix. Fuji is really rolling up their sleeves to get things right as quick as possible (as with the flawed X-PRO1 firmware fixed withing days too).

As always, feel free to drop your own considerations and experience in the comments.

Fuji X-T1 in stock check: [shopcountry 21553]

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The second bunch of XF 56/f1.2 lenses arrived in the US and Adorama has it now in stock here (with 4% reward). [UDPATE: out of stock at Adorama] It’s available also at BestBuy here.

X-T1 Giveaway

Just a couple of hours left to join the Fujirumors/Ting contest and have the chance to win the X-T1 in the image above. I’ll close the comments today (March 14th, 2014) at 2PM New York time. The winner will be announced here on FR on Monday.

The rules are easy… no subscriptions and no need to buy anything… just check out this post (click here) and join the contest.

And if you wonder why so many people would save thousand of bucks if they switch to ting for mobile, then check out “why Ting is so cheap” here.

If you like what you see, join ting.com and save $25 by using the following link: fujirumors.ting.com (you’ll also support FR, as this blog will get a comission on every new ting.com customer who uses this link to join ting.com).

The contest is open only to US-citizens.

good luck to everyone…

Patrick

It’s official! Fuji Japan announced the fix and free reparir service here (translation). The affected X-T1 include the following serial numbers: from the 41002001 to 41006000.

Let it be fixed and start your long exposure shots like stockografie on 500px here (X-T1 and [shoplink 12946]8mm fisheye lens[/shoplink].) For his X-T1 review in German click here (translation).

This is what Fujifilm UK wrote to FR-reader Bob: “I am very sorry to hear that your camera is experiencing the Flare effect, if you can please provide your full UK address and the serial number of your camera, we can have a pre-paid special bag / box sent out to collect the camera for you. It will then be repaired with the utmost of care and urgency.”

I hope this information helps and I apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

VDG: “since saturday I am a happy owner of a leaking X-T1. I just wrote about my experience trying to put it “under a different light”. Take a look and repost it if you like! The link it this. Read more at one125 here.”

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