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Fuji GS645S Professional

Fuji Photo Film · Fixed lens · 6×4.5 on 120 or 220 film, in portrait orientation with the camera held normally (camera-wiki; Wikipedia) · 1984

Also known as: Fuji GS645S · Fuji GS645S Professional · Fuji GS645S Pro · Fuji GS645S Wide60 · Fuji GS645S Professional Wide 60 · Fujifilm GS645S · Fujica GS645S · Fuji GS645S 60mm f/4 · Fuji GS645S 60mm F4 · GS645S Wide60 6x4.5 · フジ GS645S · フジカ GS645S · FUJI GS645S プロフェッショナル · フジ GS645S Wide60

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Fuji GS645S Professional Wide60 (1984) Fuji fixed 1984 — No production figure or serial table has been published
  1. Date, finder, base length, meter range and filter size are camera-wiki's; the 766 g and 147 × 114 × 90 mm are Wikipedia's comparison table, read by column position, and Michael Duke gives the same weight and depth. Japanese Wikipedia agrees on 7 elements in 5 groups and 49 mm; antiquecameras.net alone has 7 elements in 6 groups, and 766 g. No Fuji document was read directly.
  2. Self-timer: not stated by any source read here, so the field is left empty. The T setting is Theo Panagopoulos's timed-exposure mode, cancelled by a second press of the release.
  3. Closest focus 1 m is Wikipedia's figure; camera-wiki does not give one for the GS645S.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • The one with the bar: a rigid 6×4.5 rangefinder with a tubular guard around a 60mm f/4 lens, roughly a 35mm equivalent on 35mm film (camera-wiki)
  • FUJI on the top plate, where the GS645 and GS645W read FUJICA; EBC FUJINON W 1:4 f=60mm on the lens (Japanese Wikipedia)
  • Clicked full-stop aperture ring with larger tabs, where the folding GS645's is stepless with small tabs (Duke)
  • Side tripod socket as well as the base one, so the camera can be mounted for landscape frames (Photo Thinking)

Fuji GS645S Professional Wide60 (1984):

  • A tubular bar around the lens, the 'cow bar', 'roo bar' or 'brush bar' of the reviews, which is not fixed directly to the body and guards only against light knocks (camera-wiki; Stamps; Wikipedia)
  • EBC FUJINON W 1:4 f=60mm on the front ring; aperture ring with full-stop clicks and larger tabs than the GS645's stepless ring (Duke)
  • Name plate reads FUJI, not FUJICA (Japanese Wikipedia)
  • Rigid body 90 mm deep, 766 g; rangefinder window beside the finder; 49 mm filter thread (Wikipedia; camera-wiki)
  • Tripod socket on the side of the body for landscape-orientation use (Photo Thinking)

Specifications

Format
6×4.5 on 120 or 220 film, in portrait orientation with the camera held normally (camera-wiki; Wikipedia) · 15 on 120, 30 on 220; 7 on a half-length roll of 120 (camera-wiki; Photo Thinking) exposures
Finder
combined coupled rangefinder and viewfinder · 0.5× magnification
Base length
40 mm
Effective baselength
20 mm
Shutter
Copal #00 leaf shutter in the lens, cocked by the film-advance lever (camera-wiki; Photo Thinking) · 1s–1/500 and T, the timed exposure ended by a second press of the release (camera-wiki; Photo Thinking) · flash sync hot shoe, X-synchronised at every speed (camera-wiki)
Film advance
single-stroke top lever that advances the film and cocks the shutter (camera-wiki)
Back
hinged; takes 120 or 220 (camera-wiki)
Meter
Photodiode reading through the viewfinder window, not through the lens; switched on by half-pressing the release; three LEDs (+, o, −) in the finder; EV 4–18, ISO 25–1600 in 1/3 steps set on the lens barrel; two LR44 cells in the base plate (camera-wiki). The camera works without batteries; only the meter needs them (Stamps; Wikipedia).
Weight
766 g
Dimensions
147 × 114 × 90; 766 g (Wikipedia; Duke's 766 g and 90 mm deep) mm

Magnification and base from camera-wiki. The three meter LEDs (+, o, −) show in the finder. Theo Panagopoulos finds the patch a little small and short of contrast but usable in dim light; Michael Duke's camera was snappy from infinity to about 3 m and slow to settle closer in; Jennifer Stamps warns that the very smooth focus ring makes it easy to overshoot.

Where sources disagree

First (month)
  • 1 October 1984 — camera-wiki's specification page; Wikipedia's comparison table gives October 1984
  • March 1984 — Theo Panagopoulos (Photo Thinking), in a review

Better supported: October 1984 — two reference pages agree, and the folding GS645's March date is the likelier source of the confusion

What reviewers say

History

The GS645S Professional, sold from October 1984 with Wide60 added to its name, is the third and last of Fuji Photo Film’s manual GS645 bodies and the one that combines a rigid lens with a coupled rangefinder. Its EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4, an Orthometar-type design of seven elements in five groups, sits in a Copal #00 shutter inside a tubular guard that every reviewer gives a different name — cow bar, roo bar, brush bar, crash bar — and that Jennifer Stamps notes is not fixed directly to the body, so it shrugs off light knocks and no more. The finder is 0.5× on a 40 mm base, 20 mm effective, the smallest of the three; the meter reads EV 4–18 through the finder window with the same three LEDs and ISO 25–1600 on the barrel; the body is 90 mm deep and 766 g with its two LR44 cells powering the meter and nothing else. Fifteen frames on 120, thirty on 220, hot shoe synchronised at every speed, and an optional GS-grip that turns a shoe flash through 90° for vertical frames and stores a spare roll.

Two things mark it off from the folding GS645 beyond the bar. The name plate reads FUJI rather than FUJICA, the first of the 645s to drop the old brand (Japanese Wikipedia), and the aperture ring clicks in full stops with larger tabs where the folder’s is stepless with small ones; Michael Duke, who shot the two side by side, found this made the S much faster on the street, and liked that the rigid lens keeps its hood and filters on between shots. Theo Panagopoulos adds a side tripod socket for landscape frames, a quiet shutter, a timed exposure cancelled by a second press, and a meter he overrides only for silhouettes and hard backlight. The date is the one disputed figure: camera-wiki gives 1 October 1984 and Wikipedia October, Photo Thinking March 1984, which is the folding GS645’s month.

What the reviewers do not love is the rangefinder and the top speed. The patch is small and could use more contrast (Panagopoulos), Duke’s camera was snappy to 3 m and took a couple of seconds to settle closer in, and Stamps found the focus ring smooth to the point of overshooting; her larger complaint is the 1/500 ceiling, which keeps her away from ISO 800 film in daylight. A Photrio user praised the finder and the 60mm’s suitability to street work and had two GS bodies fail in short order before moving to the autofocus GA645 with its own 60mm f/4; Wikipedia’s summary of the line, criticised for fragility and praised for form factor and lenses, fits. No original list price has been found; antiquecameras.net’s 2011 used range was $275–400. The lens has its own page.

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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

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Related: Fuji GA645 Professional · Fuji GA645i Professional · Fuji GA645Zi Professional · Fujica GS645 Professional · Fuji GS645W Professional

Lenses for this body: EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4 (GS645S)

Sources (7)

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