Fujifilm GF670W Professional
Fujifilm · Fixed lens · 6×6 cm or 6×7 cm on 120 or 220 film, switchable (Japanese Wikipedia; Digital Camera Watch) · 2011
Also known as: Fujifilm GF670W Professional · Fuji GF670W · GF670W Professional · FUJIFILM GF670W · Fujifilm GF670W 55mm f/4.5 · Voigtländer Bessa III W · Voigtlander Bessa III 667W · Bessa III W 667W · フジフイルム GF670W Professional · フジ GF670W · フォクトレンダー ベッサIII W · ベッサIII 667W
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujifilm GF670W Professional (2011) | Fuji fixed | 2011 | — | — |
| Voigtländer Bessa III W 667W (export, 2011) | Fuji fixed | 2011 | — | — |
- Weight: about 1,100 g body only, without battery (Digital Camera Watch; camera-wiki gives the same figure without battery). Power is one CR2 lithium cell (Digital Camera Watch).
- The 55 mm lens gives the angle of a 27 mm lens on 35 mm film in the 6×7 format and of a 30 mm in 6×6 (Digital Camera Watch); the Amateur Photographer notices seen in search give 27 mm or about 28 mm.
- camera-wiki says the GF670W is based on the same body as the GF670. The depth, 89 mm against the folder's 138 mm open and 64 mm folded, is the practical difference: the W is thicker than the folded GF670 and thinner than the open one.
How to tell them apart
- No bellows: a rigid barrel carrying the 55mm f/4.5 with the focusing ring on the lens; camera-wiki reports breaks in the ring's travel that some find hard to use
- Silver top plate only, EBC FUJINON 55mm 1:4.5 on the lens ring; the export camera is badged Voigtländer with 667W
- The same top-plate layout as the GF670: speed knob with A position, ISO and compensation at the left, advance knob and counter at the right, hot shoe between (camera-wiki, for the GF670)
Fujifilm GF670W Professional (2011):
- Silver top plate; no black version was offered (Digital Camera Watch)
- Lens ring reads EBC FUJINON 55mm 1:4.5 (Digital Camera Watch)
Voigtländer Bessa III W 667W (export, 2011):
- Voigtländer badging with 667W on the body; camera-wiki writes the name Bessa III 667W in its text and Bessa III W in its links
- Fujifilm GF670W Professional (2011): Released 23 March 2011 in silver only. Die-cast aluminium body with magnesium alloy for the main exterior parts, 178 × 109 × 89 mm, about 1,100 g without battery (Digital Camera Watch; camera-wiki). Fujifilm's notice gives no production figure.
- Voigtländer Bessa III W 667W (export, 2011): The export twin, on the same footing as the Bessa III is to the GF670 (camera-wiki). Its lens carries a Voigtländer name rather than EBC Fujinon; dealer listings seen in search call it a Color-Skopar, which has not been checked against an engraving. Dealers' asking prices for the Bessa III W run well above the folding camera's: a search in 2026 turned up AU$10,259 and €5,999 listings.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×6 cm or 6×7 cm on 120 or 220 film, switchable (Japanese Wikipedia; Digital Camera Watch)
- Finder
- Bright-frame viewfinder with built-in double-image rangefinder, automatic parallax correction (Digital Camera Watch) · 0.52× magnification · automatic parallax correction · 90% coverage
- Base length
- 37.2 mm
- Effective baselength
- 19.3 mm
- Shutter
- Electronically controlled leaf shutter in the lens (Digital Camera Watch) · 4 s – 1/500, B (Digital Camera Watch) · flash sync Sync at all speeds; hot shoe and sync terminal (Digital Camera Watch)
- Meter
- Centre-weighted average, external cell; aperture-priority AE and manual (Digital Camera Watch)
- Motor drive
- Not compatible
- Weight
- 1100 g
- Dimensions
- 178 × 109 × 89 (Digital Camera Watch; camera-wiki) mm
- Country
- Japan
- Original price
- Open price; expected street price around ¥275,000 (Digital Camera Watch, February 2011); one dealer's pre-order price ¥239,800
- Accessories
- CR2 lithium battery (Digital Camera Watch) · 58 mm filters (camera-wiki)
0.52×, base 37.2 mm, effective base 19.3 mm, 90% field of view at 3 m, rangefinder coupled from 0.7 m to infinity — all from Fujifilm's specification as reported by Digital Camera Watch. A forum user quoted in search results calls the finder incredibly bright with a very well defined focusing patch.
Where sources disagree
- Original price
- about ¥275,000 expected street price — Digital Camera Watch, reporting Fujifilm's notice of 17 February 2011
- ¥239,800 — one dealer's pre-order price (packet)
Better supported: about ¥275,000
An open-price product; both are street figures, not a list price.
What reviewers say
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History
The GF670W is the wide-angle companion to the GF670, shown as a prototype at Photokina 2010 and released in Japan on 23 March 2011. It keeps the folder’s body, top-plate controls, electronic 4 s–1/500 leaf shutter, centre-weighted aperture-priority metering and CR2 cell, but drops the bellows: the 55mm f/4.5 sits in a rigid barrel with the focusing ring on the lens, and the camera is 89 mm deep, between the GF670 folded and open. The lens gives the view of a 27 mm on 35 mm film in 6×7, and the formats are switchable as on the folder. Fujifilm sold it in silver only, at an open price its notice expected to land around ¥275,000; Cosina sold the same camera for export as the Voigtländer Bessa III W, or 667W.
Fujifilm’s specification describes a bright-frame finder of 0.52× with automatic parallax correction and 90% coverage at 3 m, and a rangefinder on a 37.2 mm base, 19.3 mm effective, coupled from 0.7 m to infinity. The lens is ten glasses in eight groups behind a 58 mm filter thread. The body is die-cast aluminium with magnesium alloy exterior parts and weighs about 1,100 g without its battery.
No full review of the GF670W or Bessa III W was found: a Rangefinder Forum thread points to a British Journal of Photography piece its members found long on praise and short on information, and the users quoted there describe a very bright finder with a well-defined focusing patch. camera-wiki records a complaint about breaks in the focusing ring’s travel. The wide camera was made in smaller numbers than the folder, and in 2026 dealers’ asking prices for the Voigtländer version seen in search ran to €5,999 and AU$10,259.
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
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