Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6 (G690)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji G690 · 1968
Also known as: Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6 · Fujinon TS 150mm F5.6 · Fujinon T S 150mm F5.6 · Fujinon 150mm F5.6 G690 · Fuji Fujinon TS 150/5.6 · Fujica 150mm f/5.6 G690 · Fujica GL690 150mm · フジノン TS 150mm F5.6 · フジノンTS 150mm F5.6 · フジノン 150mm F5.6 G690 · フジカ G690 150mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6, ribbed ring (1968–73) | Fuji G690 | 1968–1973 | — | — |
| Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6, rubber grip (1974–78) | Fuji G690 | 1974–1978 | — | — |
- Elements and groups (5/4), f/45, 2m and 910 g (1968/9) and 913 g (1974) are camera-wiki's lens table; Japanese Wikipedia gives 4群5枚, 2m and φ72mm for the 1968 lens. The family weight is the 1968 lens's. No source gives the length or diameter.
- 'Sonnar type' is camera-wiki's description of the 150mm and 180mm; no Fuji drawing was found.
- The 1978 end date is the end of the GL690/GM670 (Lallement: November 1978); no separate discontinuation was published.
- No list price was found in any source.
How to tell them apart
- The lens of the body finder's inner brightline: with the 100mm, the only G lens that needs no shoe finder
- Engraved TS (sellers write T S); 72mm filter thread and screw-in hood; Seiko No. 0 shutter with B and 1–1/500; scales in metres and feet, infinity anticlockwise (camera-wiki)
- Ribbed ring: 1968–73; rubber grip: 1974–78
- Not the large-format Fujinon W 150mm f/5.6 in a Copal shutter, which is far commoner under the same words and has no bayonet or rangefinder cam
Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6, ribbed ring (1968–73):
- Ribbed metal focusing ring (camera-wiki); 910 g
- Silver finish on lenses sold with the 1968 G690, black from the G690BL onward (camera-wiki; Lallement)
- Composed in the body finder's smaller brightline; no accessory finder
Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6, rubber grip (1974–78):
- Black barrel with the textured rubber focusing-ring insert of the 1974 generation (camera-wiki; Lallement)
- 913 g (camera-wiki) — within a few grams of the 1968 lens, unlike the 100mm, which lost 135 g
- Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6, ribbed ring (1968–73): One of the four launch lenses of September 1968 (Japanese Wikipedia; Lallement).
- Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6, rubber grip (1974–78): Japanese Wikipedia lists the 1974 lens with the same 4群5枚 construction and 2m closest focus as the 1968 one, so it is a re-barrelling and a variant here.
Specifications
- Formula
- Sonnar type per camera-wiki; 5 elements in 4 groups (camera-wiki; Japanese Wikipedia: 4群5枚)
- Construction
- 5 elements / 4 groups
- Aperture range
- f/5.6–f/45
- Shutter
- Seiko No. 0 leaf shutter in the lens, B, 1–1/500 s; M and X sync
- Min. focus
- 2 m
- Weight
- 910 g
- Filter
- 72 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1968–1978
- Country
- Japan
What reviewers say
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History
The Fujinon TS 150mm f/5.6 is the short telephoto of the Fujica 6×9 system and one of its four launch lenses of September 1968, with the 65mm f/8, the 100mm and the 180mm (Japanese Wikipedia; Lallement). camera-wiki describes it as a Sonnar type of five elements in four groups; it stops down to f/45, focuses to 2m and weighs 910 g, with the 72mm filter thread and Seiko No. 0 shutter common to the line. It is the second of the two focal lengths the body finder was built for, framed by the inner of the two projected brightlines, which move for parallax and shrink for field of view with focus. On 6×9 it is roughly a 65mm on 35mm film, a portrait length.
Like the 100mm and 180mm it was re-barrelled for the GL690 and GM670 in 1974, exchanging the ribbed metal focusing ring for a black barrel with a rubber insert; the weight changed only from 910 to 913 g (camera-wiki), and Japanese Wikipedia gives the 1974 lens the same construction and closest focus, so it is the same design in a new mount. The 1968 lenses sold with the G690 were chrome-finished and those sold from the G690BL onward black.
It did not sell. Fuji found that only the 65mm and 100mm moved in numbers, which is why the system gave way to a fixed-lens camera in 1978, and no written review of the 150mm was found, though forum owners who have one describe the lenses as sharp and contrasty. The commonest trap in the market is the large-format Fujinon W 150mm f/5.6 in a Copal shutter, which appears under the same words many times more often; this lens has the breech-lock bayonet and a rangefinder cam, and reads TS.
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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