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Fujinon 60mm f/2.4 aperture ring problem

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Shortly after I bought this lens used, it began to misbehave. At wide apertures 2.4 or 2.8 it would switch to "P" i.e. the lens behaved like it was on "A". I found some references to this type of failure on Fuji-X-forum and that I should send it to Fuji for repair. It is an electronic or mechanical issue, not software issue, so I told myself: what the hell, I am quite experienced with mechanical camera body repairs and MF lenses CLA, so I jumped right on it. The bayonet ring goes off easily, but there is this flex ribbon circuit. Best is to disconnect it - there is a latch on the oposite side than where the ribbon goes out. Under the bayonet, there is a large metal C ring, probably just a spacer. Be careful because in my sample there were also 2 small spacers. I really don't know why would anyone mount the bayonet spaced more one one side than on the other side... but I left them in there. (pictured below with one of the bayonet screws for scale, they are also
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Fuji X-Pro1 kaizen

When Fuji X-Pro1 was intorduced, reviews criticized it for plenty of performance and usability problems. Fuji released the camera half-baked and let the users do the final testing. Then they released several firmware updates, to make the camera at least somewhat more usable, and save the company from an economic disaster. They tried it first time with the original x100, which became a completely differnet camera after multiple firmware improvements. This is when the legend of Fujifilm " kaizen " was born. I don't think Fuji meant to keep releasing firmware improvements, but thay just couldn't avoid it if they wanted to improve sales. And the camera owners got used to it and Fuji couldn't just stop it without losing customers. Or maybe they reailzed that they can make it their competitive advantage... Anyway, with X-Pro1 it was just fixing bugs and adding features that should have been there from the beginning. You can check the changelog  to see how many thing
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