XM-5 randomly taking photos

[The Foldman]

Similar situation here. I bought this beautiful XM-5 just a few months ago from Amazon.fr , and recently started noticing camera making random shots without me knowing about it. I mostly do a street photography, shooting primarily in a burst mode and in a silent shutter mode, selecting best shots afterwards on my computer. So when I unload images from the card I see a handful shots which were not supposed to be there. I'm not getting any jerky or digitized screen though, but sometimes all of a sudden the screen freezes and I'm just either turn camera off/on or remove the battery and putting it back. Sometimes it's really getting annoying, and I don't know how to fix this behavior. Any ideas? Thank you!

[Olaf W.]

Welcome. This topic has been seperated from an X-T5 thread

[pw-pix]

Do you perhaps have the touch screen set to take a photo by tapping or whatever the action is?

[The Foldman]

12 hours ago, pw-pix said:

Do you perhaps have the touch screen set to take a photo by tapping or whatever the action is?

Thanks for your question but no- I'm checking whether touch screen option didn't turn accidentally frequently because it happenned a couple of times before. Sometimes I assume those accidental shots might have something to do with overheat or smth. Anyway, it's annoying...

[pw-pix]

Take it back to where you bought it and ask for repair/replacement, it seems to be faulty.

[The Foldman]

Pw-pix, thank you for your suggestion, however it might be too late for that, and I probably will have to live with that...I'm going to try some options though like updating OS, using a diffetent card or just shooting in slower/ diffefent modes. I might be abusing the camera too much with that 8 shots per sec. mode.

[jakabasej8]

On 5/28/2025 at 7:10 PM, The Foldman said:

Thanks for your question but no- I'm checking whether touch screen option didn't turn accidentally frequently https://atelierrebul.rs/kategorija-proizvoda/mirisi-za-dom/ because it happenned a couple of times before. Sometimes I assume those accidental shots might have something to do with overheat or smth. Anyway, it's annoying... https://atelierrebul.hr/

I'd definitely recommend a firmware update as a first step, and if that doesn't work, try a different memory card.

Edited November 11 by jakabasej8