Two ways to fix the d-pad buttons on your Fujifilm X-T1

When the Fujifilm X-T1 hit the market, back in February, the first batch of cameras had two problems: the light leak and the fiddly d-pad buttons. Fuji rapidly fixed the light leak, but not the buttons. To be clear: Fujifilm improved the buttons later on and now you have that nice “click” when you press them. But those who grabbed one of the first cameras on the market, are still struggling with the fiddly buttons.

Some of them looked for a home-made fix. Here are two fixes:

1) solte-uk2014: “Originally it was made for my first camera with really bad buttons on it, but that camera was replaced due to light leak and the 2nd camera has definitely better buttons, but I still decided to put this little thing on, and man it makes a different. I used double sided tape, I’ve been using it a quite a few weeks now and it stays in place.” See the product [shoplink 24836ebay]here on ebay[/shoplink]

2) Matt Brandon: “I was really tired of the back buttons on the X-T1. I was, but not anymore! After reading a tweet from a friend that used a self-setting rubber (Surgu) to mod his back buttons I thought I would give it a try.” Read “How I modified my X-T1 with Sugru here.