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Fujifilm Klasse W

Fujifilm · Fixed lens · 24×36mm on 35mm film · 2007

Also known as: Fujifilm Klasse W · Fuji Klasse W · フジフイルム KLASSE W

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Klasse W 35mm compact 2007–2012 — No figure published
  1. Why this is its own family. Same body, same controls, same year as the Klasse S — and a different optical design entirely: six elements at 28mm against the S's four at 38mm. This catalog splits on optics, as it did for the Nikon 35Ti and 28Ti. Whichever way that pair is ruled, this one is ruled the same.
  2. The reviewer's verdict on build is written of this camera and applies to the S, because it is the same shell: scratches easily, and at the price 'the build quality is simply not up to par' against titanium rivals (Casual Photophile). The image quality and metering draw the opposite verdict.
  3. The W outsells the S on the used market and did so new: a 28mm in a pocket is the reason people wanted the pair at all, and the S sat in shops until Fuji ended both in 2012. No figure has been published for either.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Six elements at 28mm — a new design, not the Klasse Tessar widened; the S beside it keeps the four-element 38mm
  • Shutter in third-stop steps to 1/500 s, with 1/1000 s available at f/16
  • Program exposure with compensation, manual pre-focus and AF lock; discontinued 2012

Klasse W:

  • Super-EBC Fujinon 28mm 1:2.8 on the ring — the six-element wide lens that is the only difference from the Klasse S
  • KLASSE W on the body; identical shell and controls to the S
  • Minimum focus 40 cm

Specifications

Format
24×36mm on 35mm film
Shutter
electronic leaf shutter, programmed · third-stop steps to 1/500 s, and 1/1000 s at f/16 (Casual Photophile, from the manual)
Meter
Programmed exposure with compensation; reviewers single the metering out as the camera's best quality. The maker's cell specification was not found.
Country
Japan

What reviewers say

History

The Klasse W is the Klasse S with a different lens, and the lens is why it is the one people bought. In 2007 Fuji launched the two together in one body — same shell, same controls, same programmed exposure with compensation, same manual pre-focus to defeat shutter lag — and put a six-element 28mm f/2.8 in this one where the S kept the four-element 38mm Tessar the line had used since 2001. A 28mm in a pocket was the thing the Ricoh GR1 had proved there was a market for a decade earlier, and the W was the last new camera to serve it.

The reviewers are precise about what they get and what they pay for it. Casual Photophile calls the pair “one of the most feature-packed point-and-shoot cameras available,” the metering “stellar,” the pictures “wonderful, vibrant” — and then says the body is “simply not up to par” for the price, scratching in ordinary use where the titanium Contaxes and Nikons do not. The lens focuses to 40 centimetres, the shutter runs in third-stop steps to 1/500 with 1/1000 reached at f/16, and that combination is what the reviewer means by feature-packed: it behaves like a small camera that expects to be told things.

Fuji ended both cameras in 2012, which makes them — by the reviewers’ reckoning and this catalog’s — among the very last new-production 35mm compacts of any kind. The W outsold the S new and outsells it used, and neither has a published production figure.

It is its own page rather than a Klasse S variant for the reason this catalog applies everywhere: six elements at 28mm is a different optical design from four at 38mm, and a different design is a family, exactly as the Nikon 28Ti is from the 35Ti. Whichever way that pair is ruled, this one is ruled the same.

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This history is AI-written, from the sources listed at the foot of the page. Where the record is silent it says so rather than filling the gap — but no human wrote these sentences.

Example photos

Sample photo taken with the Fujifilm Klasse W
Fujifilm Klasse W — bellemarematt, via Flickr (Openverse) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Sample photo taken with the Fujifilm Klasse W
Hotel Marcel, New Haven — shot on a Klasse W (Matthew Bellemare) — bellemarematt, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Sample photo wanted — shot with a Fujifilm Klasse W? We'd love to feature it (with credit).

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $1,500 across 23 fixed-price listings on 2026-10-19 (middle half $1,400–$1,700). Tracked since 2026-09-06, 9 days: up 7% from $1,400.

By day
DateMedianMiddle halfListings
2026-10-19$1,500$1,400–$1,70023
2026-10-18$1,500$1,400–$1,70023
2026-10-17$1,500$1,400–$1,70023
2026-10-16$1,500$1,400–$1,70023
2026-10-15$1,400$1,400–$1,70022
2026-09-21$1,600$1,400–$1,80021
2026-09-18$1,500$1,400–$1,70021
2026-09-10$1,400$1,400–$1,70018
2026-09-06$1,400$1,300–$1,70020

Asking prices from the listings scanned, not sales; junk-flagged rows and auction lots excluded; other currencies are not converted.

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Buying from Yahoo! Auctions outside Japan. It is a domestic marketplace: sellers ship within Japan, and most will not register an overseas buyer. A proxy service bids on your behalf, receives the item and forwards it, for a fee and a wait. Buyee, Jauce and ZenMarket each accept a Yahoo auction number directly. Listed alphabetically for information — none is recommended over another, and none of these is an affiliate link.

Listings updated 2026-10-19. Links go to the shop or marketplace that carries the item.

Related: Fujifilm Klasse · Fujifilm Klasse S · Fujifilm Natura · Fujifilm Natura Classica · Nikon 28Ti · Ricoh GR1

Sources (3)

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