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Fujifilm Natura Classica

Fujifilm · Fixed lens · 24×36mm on 35mm film · 2006

Also known as: Fujifilm Natura Classica · Fuji Natura Classica · Natura NS · フジフイルム ナチュラクラシカ

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
Natura Classica 35mm compact 2006–2010 — No figure published
Natura NS 35mm compact 2006 — No figure published
Natura Classica White (limited edition) 35mm compact 2010–2010 — 3,000 — a figure repeated in collector writing and usually attributed to Lomography's Lomopedia entry; the only production number anywhere in the Natura line. Not confirmed in any source read directly for this page¹
  1. The 3,000 for the Classica White is repeated in collector writing and usually attributed to Lomography's Lomopedia entry on the Classica. The archived copy of that page read for this entry gives the lens and autofocus specification but not the limited-edition figure, so the number is carried as reported rather than confirmed. It is also the ONLY production figure anywhere in the Natura line, and it belongs to this zoom, not to the 24mm f/1.9 cameras.
  2. This is a zoom compact, and it earns its place among the fixed-focal-length cameras on its own terms: the f/2.8 at 28mm is rare on a zoom, and the NP mode makes it a specific instrument for fast film rather than a generic zoom compact.
  3. Sunrise Camera's Japanese product history gives the lens as 5群6枚 and the release year as 2006; the archived Lomography entry gives the zoom range, the autofocus range and the five exposure modes. Neither publishes a shutter range for this model.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • A ZOOM — 28–56mm at f/2.8–5.4, six elements in five groups (5群6枚) — and the f/2.8 at the wide end is the point: genuinely rare on a zoom compact
  • NP mode engages automatically at ISO 800 and 1600: flash off, lens wide, the same idea as the Natura S carried to a zoom
  • Active autofocus 0.4 m to infinity with an infinity-lock landscape mode; DX ISO 50–3200; one CR2

Natura Classica:

  • Super EBC Fujinon 28–56mm 1:2.8–5.4 on the ring; black-and-grey or white body
  • The 'classica' is the styling — a retro shell where the Natura S had been a plain compact

Natura NS:

  • A near-identical sibling of 2006–07; the differences are small enough that Japanese writers have published articles explaining them

Natura Classica White (limited edition):

  • White finish; the last Natura and, by most accounts, one of the last new 35mm compacts Fujifilm brought to market

Specifications

Format
24×36mm on 35mm film
Shutter
electronic programmed shutter · programmed; Fujifilm's published range for this model was not found — the Natura S page gives 1 s to 1/360 s and the Classica is usually assumed to match, which this entry does not assert
Meter
Programmed exposure with slow-shutter, red-eye, self-timer, remote and landscape modes; NP mode suppresses the flash automatically once ISO 800 or faster film is loaded.
Country
Japan

What reviewers say

History

The Natura Classica takes the idea of the Natura S — a compact built around Fujifilm’s ISO 1600 film, with a mode that switches off the flash and shoots wide — and gives it a zoom and a retro shell. The lens is a Super EBC Fujinon 28–56mm, six elements in five groups, and the number that matters is the f/2.8 at the wide end: on a zoom compact that is rare, and it is what makes the NP mode work at 28mm, where a slower zoom would have nothing to open up to. NP engages automatically once ISO 800 or faster film is loaded. The “classica” is the styling. The Natura S had been a plain consumer compact; this one was dressed to look like something older.

It arrived on 3 March 2006 in black-and-grey and white, with active autofocus from 0.4 metres and an infinity-lock landscape mode, DX reading from ISO 50 to 3200, and a single CR2. A near-identical sibling, the Natura NS, followed in 2006–07 — near-identical enough that Japanese writers have had to publish articles explaining the differences, and none of those read for this page describes an optical one, so the NS is carried here as a variant rather than a camera. A white limited edition of 2010 is, by most accounts, one of the last new 35mm compacts Fujifilm brought to market.

That white edition carries the only production figure anywhere in the Natura line: 3,000. The number circulates in collector writing, usually attributed to Lomography’s Lomopedia entry, and the archived copy of that page read for this entry gives the lens and the autofocus range but not the figure. So it stands as reported, not confirmed — and it belongs to this zoom, not to the 24mm f/1.9 cameras on the Natura page, where it is sometimes misplaced.

It is a zoom among fixed-focal-length compacts, and it earns the company: still in demand in Japan and Korea, priced like a collectable, and — because Fujifilm kept it in production into the 2010s — effectively the last good compact anyone made.

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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.

Example photos

Sample photo taken with the Fujifilm Natura Classica
Fujifilm Natura Classica — veroyama, via Openverse (flickr) (BY-SA 2.0)

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Sources (3)

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