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Fuji STX-2

Fuji · Fujica X mount · 24×36mm on 35mm film, hinged back with a film-confirmation window · 1985

Also known as: STX2 · STX 2 · Fuji STX2 · FUJI STX-2 · Fujica STX-2 · フジ STX-2 · フジカ STX-2

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
STX-2 Fujica X 1985 — No figure published
  1. Weight is the disputed figure. The STX-2 manual's specification page gives 510g body alone with body cap and 655g with the 50mm f/1.9 including batteries; camera-wiki gives 480g body and 625g with lens, and John Margetts weighs a body at 480g; CamerAgX says 510g. The maker's figure is adopted.
  2. The date is 1985 in English Wikipedia's model table, November 1985 in the Japanese product list, 1985 on pbase's specification stub and in John Margetts's review; CamerAgX's X-mount history calls the STX-2 a 1983 refresh and is the outlier. The Japanese list also records that the STX-2, though an export model, was sold in small numbers at home to photo studios.
  3. Two accounts of the finder cannot both be right: CamerAgX finds it narrow, dark and lacking contrast, significantly worse than comparable models, while I Love Toxic Waste Photography finds it larger and clearer than any DSLR. The manual gives 0.86× and 90/92 per cent coverage, which is ordinary for the class. Both verdicts are kept.
  4. The end of the line is 1985 in English Wikipedia's X-mount article and 1987 in CamerAgX's history. No end date is claimed for the STX-2 itself.
  5. No list price was found in any readable source, in yen or in dollars.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • Fujica X bayonet: 65° turn, 43.5mm flange back; M42 lenses fit with an adapter and stop-down metering
  • Mechanical shutter that fires at every speed with no battery; the two button cells run only the meter
  • Shutter speed scale and three-LED exposure indicator in the finder; hot shoe only, no PC socket
  • Plastic body covers: 510g by the manual, 480g by camera-wiki and one reviewer

STX-2:

  • FUJI on the prism housing and STX-2 on the front plate — no Fujica badge anywhere
  • Shutter speed dial to 1000, where the STX-1 and STX-1N stop at 700
  • Film-confirmation window in the back door
  • Two button cells under a slide cover on the top plate rather than in the base
  • Screen-printed rather than engraved markings (Bob Janes)

Specifications

Format
24×36mm on 35mm film, hinged back with a film-confirmation window
Finder
Fixed eye-level pentaprism, three-way screen (split image, microprism, ground glass); shutter-speed scale and three-LED (+ ● −) exposure indicator in the finder. · 0.86× magnification · 92% coverage · no rangefinder image
Shutter
horizontal cloth focal plane, mechanical, self-cocking · B, 1/2 – 1/1000 · flash sync 1/60, X-contact hot shoe only · self-timer
Film advance
single-stroke lever, 140° throw, self-cocking
Back
hinged, with a film-confirmation window
Meter
TTL centre-weighted averaging at full aperture, silicon photocell with FET circuit, three-LED zero-method indicator; ISO 25–3200 in 1/3 steps; EV 2–18 at ISO 100 with an f/1.4 lens. Two 1.5V LR44 alkaline, SR44 silver-oxide or 1.35V HR44 mercury cells, meter only, under a slide cover on the top plate.
Motor drive
Not compatible — No winder coupling.
Weight
510 g
Dimensions
133 × 87 × 87 with the 50mm f/1.9 lens; no body-only dimension published in the manual mm
Country
Japan
Accessories
Fujica Auto Strobe AZ, 200X and 300X · Fujica Mount Adapter X-S (M42 Fujinon lenses) · Fujica Auto Extension Tubes, Auto Bellows, Slide Copier, Teleconverter 2X

90% vertical, 92% horizontal with the 50mm f/1.9, from the manual

Where sources disagree

Weight (grams)
  • 510g body alone with cap, 655g with the 50mm f/1.9 — the STX-2 instruction manual (butkus.org); CamerAgX also says 510g
  • 480g body, 625g with lens — camera-wiki; John Margetts weighed a body at 480g

Better supported: 510g

The maker's figure against a weighed example and a wiki; the difference may be the body cap and batteries.

First
  • 1985 — English Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia product list (November 1985), pbase, John Margetts
  • 1983 — CamerAgX's X-mount history

Better supported: 1985

What reviewers say

History

The STX-2 is the last of the Fujica X bodies and the first not to say Fujica. The Japanese product list dates it to November 1985, an export model with a small home sale to photo studios, and describes it as the STX-1N with a film-confirmation window let into the back door, a feature Fuji was fitting to its compacts at the time; the prism housing reads FUJI. It arrived the year Minolta’s autofocus Maxxum 7000 made manual-focus bodies of this kind look old, and the same product list records that the series never sold well and that Fuji left own-brand 35mm SLRs when it ended — 1985 by English Wikipedia’s account of the mount, 1987 by CamerAgX’s.

Mechanically it is the STX-1N with the top speed the earlier cameras lacked: a self-cocking horizontal cloth shutter from 1/2 to 1/1000 second and B, 1/60 sync at a hot shoe and no PC socket, a 0.86× pentaprism covering 90 per cent vertically and 92 horizontally, a split-image and microprism screen, the shutter speed scale and three LEDs — plus, dot, minus — in the finder. The meter is a silicon cell reading centre-weighted at full aperture, ISO 25 to 3200, and it is the only thing the two LR44 or SR44 cells power; they sit under a slide cover on the top plate rather than in the base. The manual gives 510g for the body with its cap and 133 × 87 × 87mm with the 50mm f/1.9 lens; camera-wiki and one reviewer who weighed his make it 480g.

There is little to go wrong. Reviewers who have had the AX bodies fail on them note that the STX-2 has none of their electronic troubles, and the usual reports are of shutters working at every speed and meters that are spot on. The checks are the ordinary ones — seals, a battery compartment kept clean, an advance lever that has not stiffened in storage — and the complaints are about finish rather than function: plastic covers that scratch, screen-printed markings, a loud shutter, and finder LEDs that one owner calls faint. The finder itself divides opinion completely, narrow and dark to one reviewer and larger and clearer than any digital SLR to another.

The verdict everyone reaches is about the mount. The 43.5mm X bayonet was about the last manual-focus mount anyone introduced, most bodies left the shop with a 50mm and perhaps a short zoom, and beyond those the X-Fujinons are, in Bob Janes’s phrase, hen’s teeth; M42 lenses fit on an adapter with stop-down metering. With a Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 the STX-2 is a well-made, simple, cheap camera that gives results up with any of the big names; without one there are more desirable and more practical cameras for the money. No production figure and no list price were found.

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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.

Photographs

Fuji STX-2
Fuji STX-2 with X-Fujinon lens — Phil Sangwell (Philandthehound on Flickr), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Live listings

Asking price, USD: a median of $85 across 3 fixed-price listings on 2026-09-20 (middle half $32–$85). First day tracked.

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Related: Fujica STX-1 / STX-1N · Fujica AX-1 · Fujica AX-3 · Fujica AX-5

Lenses for this body: EBC Fujinon 35mm f/1.9 · X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9

Sources (13)

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