Fuji GSW680III Professional
Fuji Photo Film · Fixed lens · 6×8cm on 120 or 220 roll film: 9 exposures on 120, 18 on 220, the GW680III's gate (Japanese Wikipedia). · 1992
single source, unconfirmedAlso known as: Fuji GSW680III · Fuji GSW680 III · Fuji GSW680III Professional · Fuji GSW680 III Professional · Fujifilm GSW680III · Fuji GSW680 · GSW680III 6x8 · Fuji GSW680III 65mm F5.6 · フジ GSW680III · フジ GSW680 III · フジGSW680IIIプロフェッショナル
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuji GSW680III Professional | Fuji fixed | 1992 | — | Not published; forum owners call the 6×8 bodies the scarcest of the line |
- The GSW680III is not covered by the GW690III/GSW690III/GW670III owner's manual, and no manual of its own was found; shutter, finder, lens, dimensions and weight are the GSW690III manual's figures applied on camera-wiki's statements that the lens is shared with the GSW690III and that the III bodies share dimensions and weight.
- Exposure counts 9 and 18 are Japanese Wikipedia's for the GW680III gate; the 6×8 picture size in millimetres is not published in anything read.
- Price: camera-wiki's table says 'same as 6×9 models' for the 6×8 bodies; the ¥197,000 is the GSW690III's figure under that statement.
- Years: November 1992 from both sources; no end date is published separately from the Japanese list's 2003 for the line.
How to tell them apart
- The curved, rubber-covered III body with '6×8 Professional' on the front and EBC Fujinon SW 65mm 1:5.6 on the lens ring: spirit level, push-button spool release, front release with L lock, hot shoe, no meter, 67mm thread behind a built-in hood
- Exposure counter runs to 9 and 18; the GSW690III counts 8 and 16
- Deeper barrel and a visibly lower-magnification finder than the GW680III
- Odometer-style counter on the base plate reading in tens of exposures
- Listing trap: sellers write 'GSW690III' or 'GW680' for it; the front legend and the lens ring together settle it
Fuji GSW680III Professional:
- The III-generation curved rubberised body, spirit level and push-button spool release, with '6×8 Professional' in the front legend and EBC Fujinon SW 65mm 1:5.6 on the lens ring (camera-wiki; Japanese Wikipedia)
- Exposure counter geared for 9 frames on 120 and 18 on 220 (Japanese Wikipedia)
- The GSW690III's deeper barrel and 0.45× finder on the 6×8 gate (camera-wiki: the lens is shared with the GSW690III)
- Fuji GSW680III Professional: The only form of the camera, and by camera-wiki's table priced and weighted the same as the GSW690III. Japanese Wikipedia describes it simply as the wide-angle version of the GW680III.
Serial-range notes
- No published scheme
- No source records serial blocks or a serial-to-year table for any GW/GSW body.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×8cm on 120 or 220 roll film: 9 exposures on 120, 18 on 220, the GW680III's gate (Japanese Wikipedia). · 9 on 120, 18 on 220 exposures
- Finder
- double-image coupled rangefinder/viewfinder with a bright-line frame for the 65mm on the 6×8 gate, parallax-corrected · 0.45× magnification · 65mm framelines · one frame, fixed · automatic; the bright-line frame moves as the lens is focused (GSW690III manual) parallax correction
- Base length
- 59 mm
- Effective baselength
- 26.6 mm
- Shutter
- #0 interlens leaf shutter, self-cocking with the advance, double-exposure prevention, shutter-release lock (GSW690III manual) · T, 1s–1/500, X sync (GSW690III manual). No B · flash sync X at all speeds; hot shoe and a sync socket with cover; the flash must cover the 65mm's 76° field · no self-timer
- Film advance
- Lever on the top plate, two strokes; self-cocking; double-exposure prevention; counter geared for the 6×8 frame
- Back
- Hinged, with a camera-back lock and a reversible pressure plate for 120 or 220
- Meter
- None
- Motor drive
- Not compatible
- Weight
- 1510 g
- Dimensions
- 119 × 201 × 132 (H × W × D), the GSW690III's figures, which camera-wiki says the 6×8 shares mm
- Country
- Japan
- Original price
- Same as the GSW690III, ¥197,000 (1992), by camera-wiki's table ('same as 6×9 models'); no Fuji price list was read (today ¥227,000)
- Accessories
- 67mm screw-in filters behind the built-in hood (0.75mm pitch) · Hot-shoe flash or a flash on the sync socket, wide enough for 76°; cable release in the front release
The GSW690III's finder (59mm base, 26.6mm effective, 0.45× per camera-wiki and the manual's own effective base) with a 6×8 frame; no coverage figure is published for this gate.
What reviewers say
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History
The Fuji GSW680III Professional of November 1992 is the last body added to the GW/GSW line: the GSW690III’s wide-angle camera on the GW680III’s 6×8 gate, 9 frames on 120 and 18 on 220 (Japanese Wikipedia). Camera-wiki’s table gives it the GSW690III’s price and weight and judges the 6×8 bodies likely to have been sold only in Japan. It is not named in the owner’s manual that the GW690III shares with the GSW690III and GW670III, and no manual of its own was found, so its figures here are the GSW690III column’s, on camera-wiki’s statements that the 65mm is the same lens and that the III bodies share dimensions and weight.
The camera is therefore the one on the GSW690III page with a different counter and frame: the six-element EBC Fujinon SW 65mm f/5.6 with its 76° field, 1 m nearest focus, f/32 and 67mm thread behind a built-in hood, which camera-wiki describes as a Biogon type reaching six elements with high-index glass and thicker, more curved elements; a #0 leaf shutter with T and 1 second to 1/500 and no B; a finder on a 59mm base with a 26.6mm effective base, 0.45×; the die-cast aluminium frame under rubberised ABS panels with the spirit level, push-button spool release, two releases with an L lock on the front one, hot shoe and covered sync socket; 119 × 201 × 132mm and 1,510 g; and the odometer-style shutter counter under the body. The 6×8 picture size in millimetres is not published in anything read.
No review of the GSW680III was found, and the GSW690II and GSW690III pages carry what has been written about the lens. Photrio owners call the 6×8 bodies the scarcest of the line and repeat that they never left Japan; no figure supports either claim. The front legend (‘6×8 Professional’), the SW 65mm on the lens ring and a counter that runs to 9 and 18 identify it together, since each alone is shared with another body.
What remains open: the end of production (the Japanese list’s 2003 is for the line); the picture size; a serial scheme; and a production figure. The page rests on camera-wiki and the Japanese list, hence the single-source flag.
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.
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