First review of X100 Wide-angle converter online - looks the goods!

[laidlow]

http://roel.me/fujifilm-x100-wide-conversion-lens-wcl-x100/

Samples look pretty amazing to me, will definitely be buying one of these when I get to Japan later this year!

 

[gavinlg]

Yes it looks like it's retained all the optical qualities of the native 35mm lens. Love that Fuji have expanded the uses of the x100 despite the x-pro1 being out!

 

[froyd]

How hard would it be to make a conversion lens of similar quality that turns the 35mm into a 50mm? I'm surprised to hear the quality of the lens was largely maintained with the step down converter and that got my hopes up for a step-up converter.

A camera the size of the X100 with the quality OVF, great low light sensitivity and the option to switch between 35 and 50 would be my ideal travel digicam.

 

[rbelyell]

maybe its me, but i dont get the extra size/weight/cost to go from 35-28mm, or indeed to go from 35-50mm. take two steps back or three steps forward, maintain the integrity of the compact pocketability of the X, and buy a real lens for another camera.

if they took it to 21mm or so, or 75mm or so, it'd make a heck of a lot more sense to me, though i'd still rather use this cam as originally designed. but at least at those type differentials, i'd understand why folks might be excited.
tony

 

[JonR]

What about availability of this wide-angle conversion lens.... tried to ask Fuji here in Sweden but did not get any good respons (yet)?
Jon

 

[Snacks]

They threaded the end. Clever boys and girls.

 

[mchgst]

barrel distortion at great levels! i think the x100 is a great fixed lens camera..if you want to go wider you just need another kind of gear.

 

[gavinlg]

barrel distortion at great levels! i think the x100 is a great fixed lens camera..if you want to go wider you just need another kind of gear.

Fixed with any good raw converter with nill quality loss in about 1 second. Fixed automatically in JPEGs.

 

[kermaier]

Wasn't there a Yashica fixed lens RF in the '70s that came with a set of wide and lo g converters? I seem to remember seeing a 2nd cousin with a nifty kit like that some years ago....
Ari

 

[JonR]

Wasn't there a Yashica fixed lens RF in the '70s that came with a set of wide and lo g converters? I seem to remember seeing a 2nd cousin with a nifty kit like that some years ago....
Ari

Yes - you are right. I have one of those sets with both a "wide" and a "tele" converter for the Yashica cameras. Quality was not that great but I have had fun with them.

Ordered my X100 wide-angle converter today - it will be very interesting to test it and see how the quality comes out!

Jon R

 

[jsrockit]

Fixed with any good raw converter with nill quality loss in about 1 second.

You may have to crop (after correction) which could lose something pertinent though.

 

[lynnb]

Dpreview has now posted image samples with the wide angle converter

 

[Stockman]

barrel distortion at great levels! i think the x100 is a great fixed lens camera..if you want to go wider you just need another kind of gear.

Not from the last 1500 shots that I have taken on the WCL-X100, all of which have been accepted by the Agencies that I deal with. If there was a problem with distortion they would have been thrown back at me for sure. That said, I had to make some minor adjustments to some close up shots I did, but nothing serious.