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I recently bought an 'as new' XPro3 and all works perfectly but was looking up another topic today and saw a few rants about reliability that surprised me. Having had an XPro1 since it launched and still using to this day without any issues I was expecting to be still using the XPro3 for years to come in the same way. My XPro cameras are for personal work, I have an XT3 for my day to day studio work so they don't get the same heavy use but still the XPro3 is not that old so surprising to see them failing so soon. Is it a bad batch maybe or is it widespread? I've not seen a viral level of complaints but interested to know how other users have found their XP3 after a number of years use? I personally love it, not on an XPro1 level but I still love it all the same so hoping it will last!

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10 hours ago, BrianRolfePhoto said:

I recently bought an 'as new' XPro3 and all works perfectly but was looking up another topic today and saw a few rants about reliability that surprised me. Having had an XPro1 since it launched and still using to this day without any issues I was expecting to be still using the XPro3 for years to come in the same way. My XPro cameras are for personal work, I have an XT3 for my day to day studio work so they don't get the same heavy use but still the XPro3 is not that old so surprising to see them failing so soon. Is it a bad batch maybe or is it widespread? I've not seen a viral level of complaints but interested to know how other users have found their XP3 after a number of years use? I personally love it, not on an XPro1 level but I still love it all the same so hoping it will last!

Hello, owned a xpro2 for a couple of years w/o any trouble at all before I hopped to Xpro3 and then to xt5 in the last 18 months…. actually I sold the xpro3 after 2 necessary repairs in a row: shutter button and display defect/kaputt/not working. Fuji fixed both cases for free even when warranty had expired…. Now, I own the XT5, which returned from repair yesterday: flickering and dead display. Repair was done during warranty period… next repair: need to reconsider Fuji.

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4 hours ago, Uncle Pete said:

Hello, owned a xpro2 for a couple of years w/o any trouble at all before I hopped to Xpro3 and then to xt5 in the last 18 months…. actually I sold the xpro3 after 2 necessary repairs in a row: shutter button and display defect/kaputt/not working. Fuji fixed both cases for free even when warranty had expired…. Now, I own the XT5, which returned from repair yesterday: flickering and dead display. Repair was done during warranty period… next repair: need to reconsider Fuji.

Sad to hear that and a little concerning. My first generation Fujis are still going strong and I still use them today. Guess I will see how the XPro3 goes but if it does fail I may well just stick with my old ones, they still produce beautiful files.

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I've had mine for two years now (it's a three year-old camera, I bought it second hand) and the sub monitor has stopped working in the last few weeks. The LCD will probably go soon, if the stories are to be believed. As a photographer it doesn't bother me (i didn't buy the camera for the LCD, I'm an OVF shooter) but it does in terms of my ability to sell it on. I can't afford new Fuji camera's (only new camera I ever bought was the X10), I trade up. This one, I cannot sell so while I love it to bits, I'm stuck with it. For such a premium model you'd think this (the LCD going) should not be an issue but somewhere along the line Fuji dropped the ball and making you pay for repairs when it's clearly a design fault exacerbated by normal every day reasonable use is very disappointing. 

I'm still happy with the output though, it's a glorious camera and easily thr favourite of all the Fuji camera's I've ever owned. 

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