Your Camera’s Warranty Might Be Voided

According to Fujifilm, using any non-licensed program (including Fujifilm’s own SDK) “to connect to, or control, any compatible Fujifilm camera, will void the camera’s limited product warranty.” I spoke with Fujifilm and confirmed this to be true. I was also told that they only give licenses to large corporations “like Adobe.” I bring this up because more and more, there are programs and apps that can connect to your Fujifilm camera, to remote control it or push Recipes to it, and so forth. Very few of these seem to tell you that doing so voids your camera’s warranty. I was also told by someone at Fujifilm that each time you connect, a marker is left in the camera, which Fujifilm could find to prove that a non-licensed program was connected to the camera. Personally, I would be extremely cautious connecting any Fujifilm model that is still under warranty to any non-licensed software or app (anything that’s not officially from or supported by Fujifilm). Depending on your country,…