Fuji GW680III Professional

Fuji Photo Film · Fixed lens · 6×8cm on 120 or 220 roll film: 9 exposures on 120, 18 on 220 (Japanese Wikipedia). · 1992

single source, unconfirmed

Also known as: Fuji GW680III · Fuji GW680 III · Fuji GW680III Professional · Fuji GW680 III Professional · Fujifilm GW680III · Fuji GW680 · GW680III 6x8 · Fuji GW680III 90mm F3.5 · フジ GW680III · フジ GW680 III · フジGW680IIIプロフェッショナル

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
Fuji GW680III Professional	Fuji fixed	1992	—	Not published; forum owners call the 6×8 the scarcest gate of the three

The GW680III 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 GW690III manual's figures applied on camera-wiki's statement that the III bodies share them and differ only in gate and gearing.
Exposure counts 9 and 18 are Japanese Wikipedia's (120フィルムで9枚、220フィルムで18枚); 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 ¥179,000 is the GW690III's figure under that statement, and the numeric field carries it on that basis.
Years: March 1992 from both sources; no end date is published separately from the Japanese list's 2003 for the line.

How to tell them apart (expand)

The curved, rubber-covered III body with '6×8 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 9 and 18, the only GW body that does
Odometer-style counter on the base plate reading in tens of exposures
'6×9' or '6×7' in the front legend: the GW690III or GW670III on the same body; 'SW 65mm' on the lens ring: the GSW680III
Listing trap: 'GW680' has no earlier generation to be confused with, but sellers sometimes write 'GW690' for any III body; the front legend settles it

Fuji GW680III Professional:

The III-generation curved rubberised body, spirit level and push-button spool release, with '6×8 Professional' in the front legend (camera-wiki; Japanese Wikipedia)
Exposure counter geared for 9 frames on 120 and 18 on 220 (Japanese Wikipedia)
Same dimensions and weight as the GW690III (camera-wiki: the 6×9, 6×8 and 6×7 III bodies share them)

Fuji GW680III Professional: The only form of the camera and the only 6×8 body with the 90mm; camera-wiki gives the gate and the advance gearing as the sole differences from the GW690III, the same price as the 6×9, and a Japan-only market as likely.

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 (Japanese Wikipedia). · 9 on 120, 18 on 220 exposures
Finder: double-image coupled rangefinder/viewfinder with a bright-line frame for the 90mm on the 6×8 gate, parallax-corrected · 0.75× magnification · 90mm framelines · one frame, fixed · automatic; the bright-line frame moves as the lens is focused (GW690III 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 (GW690III manual) · T, 1s–1/500, X sync (GW690III manual). No B · flash sync X at all speeds; hot shoe and a sync socket with cover · 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: 1460 g
Dimensions: 119 × 201 × 129 (H × W × D), the GW690III's figures, which camera-wiki says the 6×8 shares mm
Country: Japan
Original price: Same as the GW690III, ¥179,000 (1992), by camera-wiki's table ('same as 6×9 models'); no Fuji price list was read (today ¥206,000)
Accessories: 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, from the GW690III manual) with a 6×8 frame; no coverage figure is published for this gate.

What reviewers say

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History

The Fuji GW680III Professional of March 1992 is the GW690III with a 6×8 gate: 9 frames on 120 and 18 on 220 (Japanese Wikipedia) in place of 8 and 16, and, by camera-wiki, the gate and the advance gearing are the only differences, the price the same as the 6×9’s and the market probably Japan alone. It is the only 6×8 body to carry the 90mm; the GSW680III of November 1992 pairs the same gate with the 65mm. It is not named in the owner’s manual that the GW690III shares with the GSW690III and the export-only GW670III, and no manual of its own was found, so its figures here are the GW690III’s on camera-wiki’s statement that the III bodies share dimensions and weight.

That makes it, in every respect but the counter and the frame, the camera on the GW690III page: a die-cast aluminium frame under rubberised ABS panels, a 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, 119 × 201 × 129mm and 1,460 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 GW680III was found. Photrio owners describe the 6×8 as the most uncommon of the three gates and repeat that it never left Japan, which agrees with camera-wiki’s ‘likely Japan only’; the figures behind either claim are not published. On the used market the front legend (‘6×8 Professional’) and a counter that runs to 9 and 18 identify it, since the body is otherwise the GW690III’s.

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.

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