Fuji GW670II Professional
Fuji Photo Film · Fixed lens · 6×7cm on 120 or 220 roll film, 56 × 68.5mm actual (the GW670III manual's figure for the same gate); 10 exposures on 120, 20 on 220, with a half-length 120 position on the film selector. · 1985
Also known as: Fuji GW670II · Fuji GW670 II · Fuji GW670II Professional · Fuji GW670 II Professional · Fujica GW670II · GW670II 6x7 · Fuji GW670II 90mm F3.5 · Fuji GW670 Mark II · フジ GW670II · フジ GW670 II · フジGW670IIプロフェッショナル
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuji GW670II Professional | Fuji fixed | 1985–1992 | — | Not published |
- Weight: camera-wiki's table gives none for the GW670II; it says the GW670III is about 15 g heavier than the GW670II, and the GW670III manual puts the III bodies at 1,460 g, so about 1,445 g follows, which is two deltas deep and is not entered.
- Exposure counts: 10 on 120 is a forum figure confirmed by the GW670III manual's film-selector drawing (6×7 format column); 20 on 220 follows the same doubling the manual shows for the 6×9 and that Japanese Wikipedia gives for the 6×8 (9 and 18).
- Picture size 56 × 68.5mm is the GW670III manual's, bracketed beside the GW690III's in the shared specification; the GW670II's own manual was not read.
- Shutter speed range (1–1/500) is the III manual's figure for the line.
How to tell them apart
- A GW690II with a 6×7 gate: 'Fuji' nameplate, hot shoe, locking release, chequered grip, a strap lug at each end, the '6×7 Professional' legend on the front; EBC Fujinon 90mm f/3.5 behind a built-in hood, 67mm thread, no meter
- Exposure counter runs to 10 and 20 where the 6×9 bodies count 8 and 16
- Curved rubber-covered body with a spirit level and push-button spool release: the GW670III of 1992, the export-only successor
- Odometer-style counter on the base plate reading in tens of exposures
- Listing trap: 'GW670' is also written for the GW670III; the body shape settles it
Fuji GW670II Professional:
- '6×7' in the front-plate legend where the GW690II reads '6×9'; otherwise the GW690II body: 'Fuji' nameplate, hot shoe, release lock, chequered grip, one lug per end (camera-wiki)
- Exposure counter numbered to 10 on 120 and 20 on 220; camera-wiki gives the gate and the advance gearing and numbering as the only differences from the GW690II
- No first-generation 'GW670' is documented by camera-wiki; a body marked Fujica GW670 would be a different, earlier camera (see disputed)
- Fuji GW670II Professional: The only form of the camera: the GW690II with a 56 × 68.5mm gate and the gearing to match. Camera-wiki's table gives no weight for it; the GW670III is 15 g heavier than it and shares the GW690III's 1,460 g, so the II sits a little under that.
Serial-range notes
- No published scheme
- No source records serial blocks or a serial-to-year table for any GW/GSW body. Generation features date a body, not its number.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×7cm on 120 or 220 roll film, 56 × 68.5mm actual (the GW670III manual's figure for the same gate); 10 exposures on 120, 20 on 220, with a half-length 120 position on the film selector. · 10 on 120, 20 on 220 exposures
- Finder
- combined coupled rangefinder/viewfinder with a bright-line frame for the 90mm on the 6×7 gate · 90mm framelines
- Shutter
- #0 leaf shutter in the lens, cocked by the advance lever; double-exposure prevention; release lock · T, 1s–1/500; no B (range from the III manual) · flash sync X, all speeds, hot shoe and sync socket · no self-timer
- Film advance
- Two-stroke lever on the top plate; additive exposure counter geared for the 6×7 frame
- Back
- Hinged, with a reversible pressure plate for 120 or 220
- Meter
- None
- Motor drive
- Not compatible
- Country
- Japan
- Original price
- ¥163,500 (December 1985; camera-wiki's table), ¥5,000 more than the GW690II of June (today ¥212,000)
- Accessories
- Lens cap and soft case; a 67mm filter thread behind the built-in hood · Hot-shoe flash or a flash on the sync socket
No magnification, base length or coverage figure for the second-generation finder was found. On the 6×7 gate the 90mm covers 52°, about a 44mm on 35mm film (GW670III manual).
Where sources disagree
- First
- December 1985 as the first fixed-lens 6×7 — camera-wiki, which documents no earlier GW670
- A 'Fujica GW670' listed by name beside the GW690 of November 1978 — Japanese Wikipedia product list, with no details
Better supported: camera-wiki: the Japanese list prints the name alone, with no date, price or description, and camera-wiki's table has the GW670II as the 6×7 follow-up to the GM670
Whether a first-generation GW670 was sold, or only listed, is not settled by anything read here; no example was found in the search results.
What reviewers say
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History
The Fuji GW670II Professional of December 1985 is the GW690II of six months earlier with a 6×7 gate, and camera-wiki says that the smaller gate and the advance gearing and numbering that go with it are the only differences. The frame is 56 × 68.5mm by the GW670III manual, which brackets the 6×7 figures beside the 6×9 in a shared specification, giving 10 frames on 120 and 20 on 220 in place of 8 and 16, and a 52° field for the 90mm on this gate, about a 44mm on 35mm film where the 6×9 bodies get 58° and a 39mm equivalent. Everything else is the II-generation camera: the ‘Fuji’ nameplate, the hot shoe, the release lock, the chequered grip, a lug at each end, the five-element EBC Fujinon 90mm f/3.5 in a #0 leaf shutter with T and 1 second to 1/500 and no B, and the odometer-style shutter counter on the base. Camera-wiki describes it as the follow-up to the GM670 of 1974, the 6×7 body of the interchangeable-lens G series, and prices it at ¥163,500.
Whether a first-generation GW670 preceded it is the one open question of substance. The Japanese product list prints a ‘Fujica GW670’ beside the GW690 of November 1978 without a date, a price or a word of description, while camera-wiki documents no such camera and treats the GW670II as the first fixed-lens 6×7. Nothing read here settles it, and no example turned up in the search results; the name is recorded here with that caveat.
No review written around the GW670II was found. Forum owners of the 6×7 and 6×8 bodies describe them as the one camera with three gates, basic and easy to use, with the lens as sharp and contrasty as on the 6×9, and disagree on whether the 6×7 is the rarer or the commoner version; those are opinions, not figures. In 1992 the camera was succeeded by the GW670III, the curved rubber-covered body that camera-wiki and the Japanese list both say was sold for export only.
What remains open besides the GW670 question: a measured weight (camera-wiki gives the GW670III as 15 g heavier than this body, and the III at 1,460 g, so about 1,445 g follows, but two deltas deep); the finder’s magnification and base length; a serial scheme; and a production figure.
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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