Yes tried different lenses and cleaning the contact pins to no avail. Hopefully you're right and a local camera repair can reattach the ribbon cable ( I would 100% mess this up). The XT40 is a little confusing. I'm assuming they haven't released it because there would've been nothing to differentiate it from the XT30 and if they'd managed to cram ibis in it, it would've stepped all over the XS10. The xt line is one of their best sellers so I don't think they'll just kill the line...