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Fuji X100V - 50mm/70mm digital converter quality !

Started Jun 10, 2020 | Discussions thread
stephenseriously
stephenseriously Regular Member • Posts: 103
Re: Fuji X100V - 50mm/70mm digital converter quality !
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The terrific thing about the X100V with the latest firmware is that you don't have to sacrifice the RAW to shoot the JPG with the digital tele converter anymore. Activating the TC mode in RAW gives you a JPEG with the crop/upscaling, plus a RAW with the full 35mm-equiv image and the ability to do any in-camera fuji RAW processing to either version.

Personally, I think the TC images look pretty incredible in all but the worst light at the first tier (50mm) and passable at the second (70mm). Both look significantly better IMHO when you add a bit of fuji's in-camera grain to cover up some of the artifacting, which can be a little strange-looking. The physical TCL adapter is incredibly sharp on the new X100V lens, so with that on, you get a bump up to a pretty clean 70mm-ish frame, and an emergency 100mm.

to get wider, I use the WCL that was made for the X70, which gives a FOV of about 26mm-equiv instead of 28. It's very sharp stopped down, but it smears detail a little bit wide open and introduces some chromatic aberration, neither of which are issues with the X100 WCL, from what I've seen and heard. Still, I'm very happy with the extra wide reach it affords me, and I've shot events with it and gotten no complaints.

Essentially, with the X100V and the adapters, you get a pretty versatile kit with sharp output encompassing 28mm/35mm/50mm/70mm (and 100mm in a pinch) that'll just about squeeze into a hip pack.

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