Fujifilm X100V Lenses: Which Converter Fits

Usually none. The built-in 23mm f/2 is the reason to buy the camera. On this sensor it feels like about 35mm on a large camera: street, table, people at conversation distance. When rooms and narrow lanes get too tight, I screw on the WCL-X100 II. Then it is about 28mm. When I want faces tighter and I want to keep all 26 megapixels, I take the TCL-X100 II. That feels like about 50mm.

Only sometimes tighter, and a smaller file is fine? The camera has a digital teleconverter for that. It crops 50mm or 70mm out of the file. You buy nothing, and you lose pixels. Roughly half at 50mm, about a quarter at 70mm.

Two converters

WCL-X100 II and TCL-X100 II on the X100V

You do not need both at once. The wide one when there is no room. The tight one when people are the job and the in-camera crop leaves too little. What they cost today is on Amazon.

Vergleich	Fujifilm Fujifilm WCL-X100 II	Fujifilm Fujifilm TCL-X100 II
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Empfehlung	Wider	Tighter
Sensor	about 28mm	about 50mm
ISO-Bereich	stays f/2	stays f/2
Autofokus	49mm	67mm
Detail	about 150 g	about 180 g
Stärken	+More room, without another camera +The camera recognizes it on its own +The aperture stays as bright as without it	+A tighter frame at full resolution +Faces feel calmer than with the bare 23mm +The camera recognizes it on its own
Schwächen	−The optical finder no longer shows the whole frame −The camera gets longer at the front. A jacket pocket is over	−Clearly thicker on a camera that was meant to stay small −The 49mm protection filter does not fit on the front
Geeignet für	Streets and interiors, when the built-in 23mm is too tight.	People and details, when the in-camera crop leaves too few pixels.
Wo kaufen	Amazon→	Amazon→

The sensor is APS-C, larger than a phone and smaller than full frame. The 23mm on the ring therefore looks tighter than the number sounds. About times 1.5: 23mm becomes about 35mm next to a large camera. That is a normal everyday view, not a wide angle and not a portrait lens.

The X100V has no stabilizer, neither in the body nor in the lens. The converters do not change that. In the evening you shorten the shutter or you find something to rest on. The X100VI steadies the picture in the body. If you buy the V used because it is cheaper, know that before a converter eats the budget.

The finder is a hybrid. You can look through real glass or switch to a small screen in the finder. With the wide converter the glass does not cover the whole frame. Fujifilm replaces the frame with marks at the edge. If you want to see the frame exactly, use the electronic finder or the screen. The built-in flash often does not light the whole picture once a converter is on.

The green row is the usual case: you go out with the camera as it is. The converters are the answer once that angle of view has annoyed you for a few days. Not before.

The bars show the angle of view the way it feels next to a full-frame camera. The camera itself stays a 23mm lens. 70mm in the menu is not a second lens. It is a tighter crop of the same file.

WCL-X100 II: wider, about 28mm

0.8 times. The 23mm becomes about 19mm, and that feels like 28mm. The aperture stays at f/2. The X100V recognizes this second version by itself. A symbol appears on the display. You do not change a menu. The first WCL, without the II, was built for the X100, X100S and X100T. The V does not recognize that one on its own. Leave it.

To screw it on you take the front ring off. The adapter ring for a filter and a hood sits in the same place and comes off first. You cannot stack them. About 150 g on the front, and a jacket pocket is over. In return a narrow lane fits in the frame without you backing into the wall.

Wider

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Fujifilm WCL-X100 II

A bit wider, when 23mm is too tight indoors

A conversion lens, not an interchangeable one. You screw it on after the front ring comes off. The built-in 23mm becomes about 19mm. On the X100V that feels like 28mm on a full-frame camera: street, rooms, one less step back. The aperture stays at f/2. It weighs about 150 g. A 49mm filter fits on the front. The X100V recognizes the II by itself. The first WCL, without II, is for older X100 models and is not recognized. With the wide converter the optical finder does not show the whole frame. Use the electronic finder or the screen. The price is on the Amazon page.

Was überzeugt

• +More room, without another camera
• +The camera recognizes it on its own
• +The aperture stays as bright as without it

Was Du wissen solltest

• −The optical finder no longer shows the whole frame
• −The camera gets longer at the front. A jacket pocket is over

Editor's Statement

“When streets and rooms are too tight”

Verfügbar bei

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TCL-X100 II: tighter, about 50mm

The 23mm becomes about 33mm, which feels like 50mm. Faces get room, the background steps back, and all 26 megapixels stay. The digital teleconverter makes a similar frame from fewer pixels. If portraits are the reason more than once a month, the TCL is the more honest spend. If it is a single frame, the menu is enough.

It is thicker than the WCL, about 180 g, and a filter on the front wants 67mm. The 49mm protection filter for the bare lens does not fit. The camera recognizes this one by itself too. The old TCL without II, it does not.

Tighter

Fujifilm

Fujifilm TCL-X100 II

A bit tighter, without throwing pixels away

This is a conversion lens too. It turns the 23mm into about 33mm. On the X100V that feels like 50mm: faces get a little more distance, the background steps back, and all 26 megapixels stay. The digital teleconverter in the menu only crops that feeling out of the file and throws pixels away. The TCL weighs about 180 g and is clearly thicker at the front. A filter on it needs 67mm, not the 49mm protection filter for the bare lens. The camera recognizes the II by itself. The first TCL, without II, it does not. The price is on the Amazon page.

Was überzeugt

• +A tighter frame at full resolution
• +Faces feel calmer than with the bare 23mm
• +The camera recognizes it on its own

Was Du wissen solltest

• −Clearly thicker on a camera that was meant to stay small
• −The 49mm protection filter does not fit on the front

Editor's Statement

“When you want people tighter”

Verfügbar bei

Amazon→

An XF lens from the rest of the Fuji system has no mount here. There is nothing to swap. If you want wide, normal and tele in the bag, you want a camera with an interchangeable mount. How focal lengths feel in general is in which lens for what.

The first WCL-X100 and the first TCL-X100, without II in the name, are for the older X100 bodies. The V does not switch them on its own. You would set the converter to wide or tele by hand and turn it off again after you take it off. That is the kind of mistake that makes a used bargain expensive.

You do not need an ND filter first. The X100V already has an ND that cuts the light by about four stops. That is for a wide aperture in daylight. A protection filter is something else: clear glass, so the lens stays intact. That lives in the accessories piece.