Fuji GS645W 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) · 1983
Also known as: Fuji GS645W · Fujica GS645W · Fujica GS645W Professional · Fuji GS645W Professional · Fuji GS645W Pro · Fuji GS645W Professional Wide · Fujifilm GS645W · Fuji GS645W 45mm f/5.6 · Fuji GS645W 45mm F5.6 · GS645 Wide 45mm · フジカ GS645W · フジ GS645W · FUJICA GS645W プロフェッショナル
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujica GS645W Professional (1983) | Fuji fixed | 1983 | — | No production figure or serial table has been published |
- Date, finder, meter range, filter size and focusing scale are camera-wiki's; the 680 g weight and 147 × 114 × 76 mm are Wikipedia's comparison table, which reads the GS645W column by position (antiquecameras.net also gives 680 g). Japanese Wikipedia agrees on October 1983, 6 elements in 5 groups and 1 m. No Fuji document was read directly; the Butkus scan of the instruction manual exists but could not be read for this page.
- Shutter range 1–1/500 is camera-wiki's shared figure for the three GS645 bodies; whether the GS645W has a T or B setting and a self-timer is not stated by any source read here, so those fields are left empty.
How to tell them apart
- The wide one: a rigid 6×4.5 body with a single finder window, no rangefinder and a 45mm f/5.6 lens, roughly a 28mm equivalent on 35mm film (camera-wiki)
- FUJICA on the top plate and EBC FUJINON W 1:5.6 f=45mm on the lens; the folding GS645 has bellows and a 75mm, the GS645S a 60mm with a protective bar
- Distance scale 1 to 10 m and ∞ with click stops for zone focusing, the one Fuji 645 of the period focused by scale alone (camera-wiki; Wikipedia)
Fujica GS645W Professional (1983):
- Rigid body, 76 mm deep, with no bellows and no rangefinder window; EBC FUJINON W 1:5.6 f=45mm on the front ring (camera-wiki; Wikipedia)
- Distance scale marked 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2, 3, 5, 10 m and ∞ with click stops for zone focusing (camera-wiki)
- Name plate reads FUJICA, as on the folding GS645 (Japanese Wikipedia)
- 49 mm filter thread (camera-wiki)
- Fujica GS645W Professional (1983): The single model. Japanese Wikipedia calls it the sister model (姉妹機) of the folding GS645 with a fixed-barrel wide lens; no revision, finish or edition is recorded.
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) exposures
- Finder
- reverse-Galilean viewfinder with a parallax indicator; no rangefinder · 0.45× magnification · indicator marks parallax correction · 90% coverage · no rangefinder image
- Shutter
- Copal #00 leaf shutter in the lens, cocked by the film-advance lever (camera-wiki) · 1s–1/500 (camera-wiki; Wikipedia) · 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 3.5–18, 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 (Wikipedia).
- Weight
- 680 g
- Dimensions
- 147 × 114 × 76; 680 g (Wikipedia) mm
0.45× with 90% field coverage at 1 m and 87% at infinity (camera-wiki). The three meter LEDs (+, o, −) show in the finder. Focus is by the distance scale on the lens, with click stops at the zone-focusing distances (see disputed).
Where sources disagree
- Notes (click-stop distances)
- 2 m and 5 m — camera-wiki's specification table
- 2.5 m — Japanese Wikipedia (ヘリコイドに2.5mのクリックストップ)
Better supported: 2 m and 5 m — camera-wiki gives the whole distance scale (1, 1.2, 1.5, 2, 3, 5, 10 m, ∞) and 2.5 m is not on it
The instruction manual would settle it; the Butkus scan could not be read for this page.
What reviewers say
No reviews aggregated yet — this family is still in the research queue. Written one? We'd love to index it.
History
The GS645W Professional followed the folding GS645 by seven months, in October 1983, and is the same camera rebuilt around a rigid wide-angle lens. The bellows and the rangefinder are gone: an EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6, six elements in five groups in a Copal #00 shutter, is focused by a distance scale from 1 m to infinity with click stops at the zone-focusing distances, and framed through a 0.45× reverse-Galilean finder that shows 90% of the field at 1 m and 87% at infinity, with a parallax indicator in place of moving frames. Everything else carries over from the GS645: the photodiode meter reading through the finder window, EV 3.5–18 and ISO 25–1600 set on the lens barrel, three LEDs, two LR44 cells in the base plate, the single-stroke lever that cocks the shutter as it winds, the hot shoe synchronised at every speed, and 15 portrait-format frames on 120 or 30 on 220. Without bellows the body is 76 mm deep and 680 g, the lightest of the three.
camera-wiki records Fuji’s stated purpose: a wide 6×4.5 to complement a 35mm or 4×5 outfit for landscape and mountain work, the 45mm covering roughly what a 28mm does on 35mm film. The name plate still reads FUJICA, as on the GS645; the GS645S of 1984 was the first to say FUJI. Japanese Wikipedia calls the W the GS645’s sister model (姉妹機) and gives the helicoid a single click stop at 2.5 m, where camera-wiki’s full scale has stops at 2 and 5 m; the instruction manual, scanned at Butkus, would settle the point and was not readable for this page.
No dedicated review of the GS645W has been found: the blogs that cover the line (35mmc, MrLeica, Emulsive, Shoot It With Film, Photo Thinking) write about the folding GS645 or the rangefinder GS645S, and Matt Osborne mentions the W only to rank it below the 75mm folder for his purposes. Wikipedia’s summary of the line, fragile bodies and praised lenses, is the nearest thing to a verdict on it. Used prices in antiquecameras.net’s 2011 table ran $300–450, level with the folder; no original list price has been found. The lens has its own page.
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 wanted — shot with a Fuji GS645W Professional? We'd love to feature it (with credit).
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