Fuji GW670III Professional
Fuji Photo Film · Fixed lens · 6×7cm on half-length 120, 120 or 220 roll film, actual picture size 56 × 68.5mm (manual); 10 exposures on 120, 20 on 220. · 1992
single source, unconfirmedAlso known as: Fuji GW670III · Fuji GW670 III · Fuji GW670III Professional · Fuji GW670 III Professional · Fujifilm GW670III · GW670III 6x7 · Fuji GW670III 90mm F3.5 · Fuji GW670 Mark III · フジ GW670III · フジ GW670 III
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuji GW670III Professional | Fuji fixed | 1992 | — | Not published; export only, so absent from Japanese dealers' stock histories |
- Specifications are the bracketed [GW670III] figures in the GW690III column of the shared owner's manual (Butkus scan), p.7, read from the page image: [6 × 7 cm], [56 × 68.5 mm], 52° covering power, f=44 mm equivalent. The manual's footnote on the GW670III is clipped in the scan; camera-wiki states that the 6×9, 6×8 and 6×7 III bodies share dimensions and weight.
- Exposure counts: 10 on 120 from the manual's film-selector drawing (6×7 column) and a Photrio owner; 20 on 220 by the doubling the manual shows for 6×9 and Japanese Wikipedia gives for 6×8.
- No list price: the camera was not sold in Japan (Japanese Wikipedia, 国内販売はされなかった) and no export price list was found.
- Years: camera-wiki dates it March 1992; no end date is published for it separately from the Japanese list's 2003 for the line, so none is entered.
- A camera-history site in the search results lists the III changes over the GW670II as a new rangefinder/viewfinder, film-loading release buttons, a changed back latch, a bubble level and body cosmetics; it was not fetched.
How to tell them apart
- The curved, rubber-covered III body with '6×7 Professional' on the front: spirit level, push-button spool release, front release with L lock, hot shoe, no meter; EBC Fujinon 90mm f/3.5 behind a built-in hood, 67mm thread
- Exposure counter runs to 10 and 20 where the GW690III counts 8 and 16
- Odometer-style counter on the base plate reading in tens of exposures
- Squared metal body with a chequered grip and no level: the GW670II of 1985. '6×8': the GW680III
- Listing trap: 'GW670' alone is written for both generations; the body shape settles it
Fuji GW670III Professional:
- The III-generation curved rubberised body, spirit level and push-button spool release, with '6×7 Professional' in the front legend where the GW690III reads '6×9' (manual; camera-wiki)
- Exposure counter geared for 10 frames on 120 and 20 on 220 (manual film-selector drawing, 6×7 column)
- Same dimensions and weight as the GW690III: the manual's footnote and camera-wiki both say the III bodies share them
- Fuji GW670III Professional: The only form of the camera. It shares the GW690III/GSW690III owner's manual, which brackets its figures beside the 6×9's: [6 × 7 cm], [56 × 68.5 mm], 52° and a 44mm equivalent. Camera-wiki puts it about 15 g heavier than the GW670II.
Serial-range notes
- No published scheme
- No source records serial blocks or a serial-to-year table for any GW/GSW body.
Specifications
- Format
- 6×7cm on half-length 120, 120 or 220 roll film, actual picture size 56 × 68.5mm (manual); 10 exposures on 120, 20 on 220. · 10 on 120, 20 on 220 exposures
- Finder
- double-image coupled rangefinder/viewfinder with a bright-line frame for the 90mm on the 6×7 gate, parallax-corrected · 0.75× magnification · 90mm framelines · one frame, fixed · automatic; the bright-line frame moves as the lens is focused (manual) parallax correction
- Base length
- 59 mm
- Effective baselength
- 44.3 mm
- Shutter
- #0 interlens leaf shutter, self-cocking with the advance, double-exposure prevention, shutter-release lock (manual) · T, 1s–1/500, X sync (manual). No B · flash sync X at all speeds; hot shoe and a sync socket with cover (manual) · no self-timer
- Film advance
- Lever on the top plate, two strokes; self-cocking; double-exposure prevention; counter geared for the 6×7 frame (manual)
- Back
- Hinged, with a camera-back lock and a reversible pressure plate for 120 or 220 (manual)
- Meter
- None
- Motor drive
- Not compatible
- Weight
- 1460 g
- Dimensions
- 119 × 201 × 129 (H × W × D), the GW690III's figures, which the manual and camera-wiki say the 6×7 shares mm
- Country
- Japan
- Accessories
- Shoulder strap, soft case, lens cap and a −1 diopter eyepiece listed in the manual · 67mm screw-in filters behind the built-in hood (0.75mm pitch) · Hot-shoe flash or a flash on the sync socket; cable release in the front release
The GW690III's finder (0.75×, 59mm base, 44.3mm effective) with a 6×7 frame; the manual gives coverage percentages (95% at 1 m, 92% at infinity) in the GW690III column only, so none is entered for the narrower frame.
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 Fuji GW670III Professional is the GW690III with a 6×7 gate, released in March 1992 by camera-wiki’s table and sold only outside Japan: the Japanese product list gives it no date and notes that it was not sold domestically, which is why it has no yen price here. It shares the GW690III’s owner’s manual, which explains in its first paragraph that the three cameras it covers differ only in lens focal length and picture size and then brackets the 6×7 figures beside the 6×9’s: 56 × 68.5mm, a 52° field for the 90mm, about a 44mm on 35mm film where the 6×9 gets 58° and a 39mm equivalent, and 10 frames on 120 against 8. The body, by the manual’s footnote and by camera-wiki, has the GW690III’s 119 × 201 × 129mm and 1,460 g.
Everything else is the III camera: a die-cast aluminium frame under rubberised ABS panels, the spirit level in front of the wind lever, push-button spool release, two releases with an L lock on the front one, a hot shoe and covered sync socket, the five-element EBC Fujinon 90mm f/3.5 behind a built-in hood with a 67mm thread, a #0 leaf shutter with T and 1 second to 1/500 and no B, a 0.75× finder on a 59mm base with a frame that moves for parallax, and the odometer-style shutter counter under the body. Camera-wiki puts it about 15 g above the GW670II of 1985, the squared metal body it replaced.
No review of the GW670III was found. Forum owners describe the 6×7 and 6×8 bodies as the one camera with three gates, as sharp as the 6×9 and easy to use, and disagree about whether the 6×7 is scarce or in fact the commoner version; a camera-history site in the search results lists the III’s changes over the GW670II as a new rangefinder/viewfinder, loading release buttons, a changed back latch, a bubble level and cosmetics, which matches camera-wiki’s account of the generation.
What remains open: the end of production (the Japanese list’s 2003 is for the line); an export list price; a serial scheme; and a production figure. Most of this page rests on the shared manual and camera-wiki, 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.
Example photos
Sample photo wanted — shot with a Fuji GW670III Professional? We'd love to feature it (with credit).
Live listings
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