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Tokyo-X-Vario project: Leica X-Vario @ 18mm, 1/1000th sec f/7.1 @ ISO 1600. Zone focused to 3.5 M There’s been much talk about scale or zone focusing and I’ve had a lot of people asking me what the difference is between the two and the advantages of shooting this way. I’ve mentioned it many times in my camera review articles, so I thought I would post a quick video to explain the basics. Scale focus just means that you focus by using a scale, instead of using a focusing aid, such as rangefinder focus or split image focusing. Many older cameras used scale focusing as the only focus aid, and with a depth of field scale, most could estimate the distance pretty good. Zone focus is more purposeful in that you choose a comfortable focus distance based on the focal length of your lens and the subject you’re shooting, choose a suitable aperture that will give you enough depth of field within the ‘zone’ you are focusing on, and then leave your settings there. Once you get use to zone focusing,

Fujifilm X-100S with TCL-X100. 1/400th sec f/5.6 @ ISO 1250. Chinatown, Vancouver When Fujifilm announced the WCL-X100 wide angle converter for the X-100 series cameras, I was a bit confused. The difference between the standard 35mm equiv (23mm) angle of view and the 28mm equiv you got with the converter was negligible. If it went to 21mm or even 24mm equiv, I would have been more interested. But I understand why they didn’t go wider, since the optical viewfinder on the X-100(s) couldn’t accommodate such a wide lens (although they could have been creative and added some sort of OVF adaptor as well…) When Fujifilm recently announced the TCL-X100 this spring, my ears perked up. A 50mm equiv focal length with a rangefinder-style camera… now that’s more like it! When Fujifilm Canada asked if I wanted to test it out for a few weeks, I immediately said yes! Let’s check out this monster converter and see how it performs on the X-100S… Fujifilm X-100S with TCL-X100. 1/1700 sec f/4.0 @ ISO 1600