Zenzanon-PG 200mm f/4.5
Zenza Bronica · Bronica GS · 1983
Also known as: Zenzanon-PG 200mm f/4.5 · Zenzanon PG 200mm F4.5 · Zenzanon-PG 200/4.5 · Bronica PG 200mm f4.5 · Zenza Bronica Zenzanon-PG 200mm · Bronica GS-1 200mm f/4.5 · Bronica GS 200mm F4.5 · ゼンザノン PG 200mm F4.5 · ゼンザブロニカ PG 200mm · ゼンザノンPG 200mm · ブロニカ GS-1 200mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zenzanon-PG 200mm f/4.5 (1983–2002) | Bronica GS | 1983–2002 | — | About 3,000 (camera-wiki) |
- Construction: 6 elements in 5 groups by カメラ年鑑'84 p.256 (via Japanese Wikipedia) and camera-wiki; Tamron USA's 2004 page reads '5 groups/5 elements', which the two independent sources outvote and which is read here as a slip. Closest focus, filter thread, length, diameter and weight (2.0m, 82mm, 97.5 × 87mm, 970g) agree across Tamron Japan and camera-wiki; F4.5–32 is Tamron Japan's aperture range.
- Dating: in camera-wiki's 1983 launch list and in the 1984 yearbook, so 1983 stands; its appearance at Photokina 1984 with the converters was a showing, not a launch.
- The production figure of about 3,000 is camera-wiki's and is not sourced on that page.
How to tell them apart
- ZENZANON-PG on the front ring: PG is the GS-1 designation, as PS is the SQ's and PE the ETR's, and the four-claw GS bayonet fits no other Bronica body (camera-wiki)
- No shutter-speed ring: the Seiko #0 shutter inside is set from the dial on the body (Tamron Japan)
- 82mm filter, shared only with the 250mm, on the 87mm barrel; 97.5mm long and 970g (Tamron Japan)
- Zenzanon-PG 200mm f/4.5 (1983–2002): The only version. camera-wiki lists it among the six lenses available at the 1983 introduction and also has it shown with the 110mm and the G teleconverters at Photokina 1984; Japanese Wikipedia's figures for it come from the 1984 yearbook. Made until June 2002 with no recorded change.
Specifications
- Construction
- 6 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4.5–f/32
- Shutter
- Seiko #0 electronic leaf shutter in the lens, 16s–1/500 plus T and B, timed from the GS-1 body; mechanical fallback of about 1/500 without a battery (Tamron Japan)
- Min. focus
- 2 m
- Dimensions
- 87 × 97.5 mm
- Weight
- 970 g
- Filter
- 82 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1983–2002
- Country
- Japan
- Original price
- $2,127 (Tamron USA list, April 1996); $2,409 (Tamron USA, 2004) (today $4,250)
What reviewers say
- revdocjim, Chemical Cameras (c.2010–11) (blog) — The longest lens in his 50-to-200 kit, with no separate verdict; the PG lenses as a group were 'so good' that Bronica carried their technology to its other lines, and a commenter found them 'better than any I have ever used'.
History
The first of the two telephotos in the launch line of 1983, and in the 1984 yearbook with the rest of the original six. Six elements in five groups, by the yearbook and camera-wiki, focus to 2m and stop down to f/32; the barrel is the same 87mm as the normal lenses but grows to 97.5mm long and 970g, and the filter steps up to 82mm, a size it shares only with the 250mm. The Seiko #0 shutter inside is the one every PG lens carries.
It sat between the 150 and the 250 in price as in length, at $2,127 in April 1996 and $2,409 in 2004. About 3,000 were made, the same number as the 110mm Macro. Bronica showed it with the Macro and the G 1.4× and 2× converters at Photokina in 1984, which is a showing rather than a second launch, and no change to the lens is recorded afterwards.
revdocjim’s is the only one in the reviews read for this page, the long end of a five-lens kit, and he says nothing of it in particular. No review of the lens alone has been found.
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 Zenzanon-PG 200mm f/4.5? We'd love to feature it (with credit).
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