Fuji X100 Wide Conversion Lens.

Recently, Fuji released a Wide Conversion Lens WCL-X100, which can turn your 35mm lens to 28mm wide. It is very useful when you carry your X100 to travel around, and wide angle is really handy for taking landscape photos.

It comes with two color, silver and black to match your X100 body. Check out the official site: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/accessories/lens/conversionlens/x100wideconversionlens/

Also, remember to update the latest firmware, so you can turn on the wide conversion lens option in the camera settings.

Let's check out some samples here:
(Left: 35mm, Right: 28mm)

 

28mm (Direct JPEG): 

 

My Favourite Street Photography setting with X100

I love street photography, and X100 is small and elegant enough to do the job right.

The settings I used most are :
1) Film Simulation : BW
2) Film Simulation : Velvia
but most importantly, I set the SHADOW to hard, so I can have a little bit high contrast photo, because I am lazy to do any PS after. So here are some photos taken with the settings mentioned above.

X100 Samples (Long exposure)

World famous hong kong night scene taken by X100, 20 seconds long exposure (f16), no PS.

Click the images to get the full image.

X100 macro shots with Softbox and lightings.

With little PS (contrast adjustment), turns out the result is quite satisfy.

Fuji X100 Street Snap @ Hong Kong

Fuji X100 with CPL filter.

X100 have an adapter ring, so you can attach a filter. The ring size is 49mm. I attached a CPL filter, and did some test shots here:

without CPL:

with CPL:

X100 Film Simulation: Velvia

Velvia film simulation, It increases color saturation and contrast. Let see some samples:

Fujix100 more macro samples.

Fuji X100 BW mode.

There are BW simulation in Fuji X100, Let's see some photos:

Fuji X100 ND filter

To shoot with f2.0 under bright sun light, you have to turn the ND filter ON, the X100 ND filter is a 3 stop filter can reduce 1/8 light, it is very helpful.

Fuji X100 does HD (720p) movie recording (samples)

Fuji X100's weakness & workaround.

I have many problems with the X100 focusing system, even MF is a pain to turn the dail. But I found a good blog post from Steve that comes with really great tips to workaround all the problems in X100. If you own an X100, be sure to check this out: http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2011/05/11/the-top-7-complaints-of-the-fuji-x100-and-how-i-get-around-them-by-steve-huff/

Fuji X100 photos under bright sun light.

Finally got a chance to test it in a sunny day, Let's see some photos:

Fuji X100 ISO 800 Low Light Samples.

Fuji X100 has larger sensor and thus the noise @ high ISO is bearable. Let's check out the following photos shoot @ ISO800 f/2.0.