Fuji GX680IIIS Professional
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 mount · 56 × 76 mm nominal 6×8 on 120 or 220 film in the Film Holder III N with interchangeable cassettes; masks for 6×4.5, 6×6 and 6×7 as on the III (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki) · 1997
Also known as: Fuji GX680IIIS · Fuji GX680 IIIS · Fuji GX680III S · Fujifilm GX680IIIS · GX680IIIS Professional · GX680 IIIS Professional · GX680IIIS Pro · GX680 ⅢS · フジ GX680IIIS · フジ GX680 IIIS · フジフイルム GX680IIIS · 富士 GX680IIIS · GX680IIIS プロフェッショナル
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuji GX680IIIS Professional (1997–2010) | Fuji GX680 | 1997–2010 | — | Not published. |
- Weights from English Wikipedia: 3,720 g with the 135mm lens and a holder, 2,350 g body alone, both without batteries; it also states the IIIS is 12 oz (340 g) lighter than the III, which agrees with the difference between the two body figures.
- End date: camera-wiki's April 2010 discontinuation of the system; English Wikipedia gives no separate dates for the IIIS.
How to tell them apart
- A GX680III body — LCD, CR123A compartment, strap lugs — with a bare front standard: no knobs for rise, fall, shift or tilt and no swing lever
- S after the III in the name on the right side above the speed dial
- The lens boards, bellows and holders are the common GX680 ones; nothing about the lens mount changed
- Listing trap: sellers write 'GX680III' for a IIIS and vice versa; photographs of the front standard settle it
Fuji GX680IIIS Professional (1997–2010):
- No rise/fall, shift or tilt knobs and no swing lever on the front standard: the standard only moves along the focusing rails (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki; Japanese Wikipedia)
- Name with the S suffix marked on the right side of the body above the shutter-speed dial (English Wikipedia)
- Otherwise a GX680III: LCD panel, three CR123A cells in the base, strap lugs, Film Holder III N (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki)
- Lower overall height than the III — 187 mm against 213 mm — with the same 188 × 274 mm footprint (English Wikipedia)
- Fuji GX680IIIS Professional (1997–2010): Japanese Wikipedia describes it as a compact version of the GX680III without the movement functions; English Wikipedia as a simplified III allowing linear rail extension only, 12 oz (340 g) lighter. 3,720 g with the 135mm lens and a holder, 2,350 g bare, both without batteries. The S means no movements, not a different mount: every GX, GX M and GX MD lens fits and the holders interchange.
Specifications
- Format
- 56 × 76 mm nominal 6×8 on 120 or 220 film in the Film Holder III N with interchangeable cassettes; masks for 6×4.5, 6×6 and 6×7 as on the III (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki)
- Finder
- folding hood with a pop-up 2.5× magnifier and a matte screen with microprism centre; mask follows the rotation of the back · 2.5× magnification · 100% coverage
- Shutter
- electronic leaf shutter made by Seiko in every lens, timed and cocked by the body (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki) · 8s–1/400, B · flash sync all speeds; PC socket on the body, hot shoe on the front standard; no TTL flash metering
- Film advance
- motorised, in the film holder: about 1 frame per second, automatic loading, single, continuous and multiple-exposure modes (camera-wiki)
- Back
- rotating back taking the Film Holder III N with 120 and 220 cassettes, 6×4.5/6×6/6×7 masks, two CR2 cells and edge data imprinting; earlier holders fit (camera-wiki; English Wikipedia)
- Meter
- off-the-film silicon diode reading a central 25 mm circle after exposure, LW 5–19 at ISO 100, on the LCD; aperture-priority TTL AE with an AE Finder (English Wikipedia)
- Weight
- 3720 g
- Dimensions
- 188 × 274 × 187 (English Wikipedia) mm
- Country
- Japan
- Accessories
- AE Finder III and FL, Magnifying Hood, Angle Finder, magnifiers and focusing screens (camera-wiki) · Film Holder III N with cassettes and masks, Polaroid Instant Holder II, Fujifilm DBP digital back and third-party back adapters (camera-wiki; English Wikipedia) · Battery Holder III (6×AA), remote release, Neck Strap III, extension rails, bellows and lens shades (camera-wiki)
As the GX680III; the AE Finder III and FL, Magnifying Hood and Angle Finder fit (camera-wiki).
What reviewers say
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History
The GX680IIIS Professional appeared with the GX680III in December 1997 and is that camera with its movements left out. The front standard has no knobs for rise, fall, shift or tilt and no swing lever; it only racks along the rails to focus the bellows. Everything else is the III: the LCD readouts, the three CR123A cells in the base, the strap lugs, the rotating back, the Film Holder III N with its cassettes, masks and edge imprinting, and the Seiko leaf shutters in the lens boards, timed by the body from 8 seconds to 1/400 with flash at every speed. The S is a description, not a mount: every GX, GX M and GX MD lens fits, and the holders and finders interchange with the other three bodies.
What the deletion buys is weight and height. English Wikipedia gives 2,350 g for the bare body against the III’s 2,690 g, 3,720 g against 4,070 g with the 135mm lens and a holder, and a height of 187 mm against 213 mm on the same 188 × 274 mm footprint. The idea had been tried once before: the GX680S of December 1995 was the GX680II with the same knobs removed. Fuji’s reasoning, as the Japanese product list puts it, was a compact model for photographers who wanted the 6×8 frame, the revolving back and the shutter-in-lens flash sync of the system but not its view-camera controls.
No review of the IIIS on its own was found; Danny Burk’s 2002 account of the III, which depends heavily on the movements, does not apply to it except for the lenses, holders and batteries, which are identical. For a buyer the IIIS is a straight choice: a lighter III that runs on common lithium cells, at the price of never being able to correct converging verticals or lay the plane of focus along a tabletop. Sellers write GX680III and IIIS interchangeably, and a photograph of the front standard decides which is on offer.
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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