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Fujifilm X100VI Teardown and Disassembly
Written by Phillip Andrew Iglesias
After preordering this camera back in February 2024, we’re happy to say we’ve finally received the long awaited Fujifilm X100VI. If you haven’t heard about this camera already, it comes as one of the most recent drops in Fujifilm’s fixed lens mirrorless rangefinder line. Its predecessor, the Fujifilm X100V, has already established itself with a cult following among photographers because of its sleek & compact design and beautiful image rendering.
One of the most interesting features of this camera is its hybrid electronic and optical viewfinder (EVF and OVF respectively), whether you want to see the exact scene the lens is capturing versus the scene as an in-real-life viewing.
We’ll see how this camera stacks up internally, so let’s get to this teardown and disassembly!
As per usual, we went straight to removing the baseplate. Seven screws removed.
Checked under the faux leather cover on the port side of the camera where we found two screws. Interestingly, we found a receiver behind a clear panel. We haven’t seen this in other brands other than Fujifilm’s cameras—we’ve initially discovered this type of build during our Fujifilm X-H2 Teardown.
Two screws under the input jack door under the right side of the camera.
While there are hidden screws underneath the faux leather cover, these ones aren’t intended to keep the camera’s body frames together. These screws hold the circuitboard to the rear panel and are actually facing head up.
Two screws on rear panel underneath the flip out LCD screen
Sometimes there are screws located under the hotshoe cover, but not in the case of the Fujifilm X100VI.Â
There was one screw under the faux leather cover on the right side below the autofocus mode selector.
Even after removing each of the aforementioned screws, we still weren’t able to remove the rear panel. We found another stray screw under the leather cover on the port side of the camera.
After that last screw was removed, we were able to lift the rear panel. This needed to be done carefully since the rear panel is connected by ribbon cables. Only two ribbon cables needed to be disconnected to detach the rear panel.
After removing the rear panel, we tackled a few tasks in parallel during the teardown, focusing on how to remove the top panel and circuit board. While we’ll demonstrate the circuit board removal later, this section will focus on the top panel.
We started by detaching three ribbon cables and unfastening a screw located on the right side of the panel that secured the top panel to the camera. This allowed us to lift the top panel, but it remained connected via soldered wires, which we will address in more detail later in the article.
There were seven ribbon cables to remove surrounding the perimeter of the circuitboard.
Three screws fasten the circuitboard to the body frame.
Removing the three screws and aforementioned ribbon cables allowed us to lift the PCB. You’ll see here that one more ribbon cable and four soldered wires connect the PCB to the camera. In this case, we opted not to remove the soldering and placed the PCB to the side. Typically, one would entirely remove the circuitboard for ease of getting to the sensor.
Next, we disconnected part of the EVF, which is connected via a single ribbon cable. As mentioned in a previous section, the top panel of the camera was connected to the camera via soldered wire. We moved this to the side instead of removing it entirely.
Double sided tape holds down the ribbon cables, and white tape needed to be removed as well to get closer to the sensor. Three screws fastened the sensor cover to the frame.
This turned out to be a huge surprise. We thought we would be able to access the sensor after removing those screws, but we found that this part, the sensor cover, was just another layer of removal that needed to be done. What’s more—there is a PCB right behind the sensor! We have never seen this in a camera before.
Here is a closeup of the PCB.
Three screws hold this PCB frame to the camera.
One more ribbon cable had to be detached before we could remove the sensor.
Lo and behold, the PCB part was simply a part of the sensor itself.Â
Generally speaking, Fujifilm mirrorless cameras are among the most difficult cameras to disassemble because of their complex internal designs that vastly differ between each family model. In the case of the Fujifilm X100VI, it was a quick and easy teardown. Modern fixed lens mirrorless cameras tend to be more simple in design compared to old generation fixed lens cameras.
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