Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6 (G690)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji G690 · 1968
Also known as: Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6 · Fujinon TS 180mm F5.6 · Fujinon T S 180mm F5.6 · Fujinon 180mm F5.6 G690 · Fuji Fujinon TS 180/5.6 · Fujica 180mm f/5.6 G690 · Fujica GL690 180mm · フジノン TS 180mm F5.6 · フジノンTS 180mm F5.6 · フジノン 180mm F5.6 G690 · フジカ G690 180mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6, ribbed ring (1968–73) | Fuji G690 | 1968–1973 | — | — |
| Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6, rubber grip (1974–78) | Fuji G690 | 1974–1978 | — | — |
- Elements and groups (5/5), 1025 g and the 1.0× finder are camera-wiki's lens table; Japanese Wikipedia gives 5群5枚, 2.5m and φ72mm. camera-wiki's 2.5 figure is read as the closest focus in metres, which Japanese Wikipedia confirms. No source gives the minimum aperture, length, diameter or the 1974 lens's weight.
- 'Sonnar type' is camera-wiki's description of the 150mm and 180mm; no Fuji drawing was found.
- camera-wiki finds no evidence for the 250mm lens that other websites mention, so the 180mm is the longest lens of the system that can be verified.
- 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 heaviest G lens at over a kilogram, with its own 1.0× shoe finder: the body finder has no 180mm frame, though the rangefinder focuses it
- 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 180mm f/5.6 or Fujinon A 180mm f/9 in Copal shutters, which have no bayonet or rangefinder cam
Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6, ribbed ring (1968–73):
- Ribbed metal focusing ring (camera-wiki); 1025 g
- Silver finish on lenses sold with the 1968 G690, black from the G690BL onward (camera-wiki; Lallement)
- Supplied with a reflected-frameline shoe finder of 1.0× (camera-wiki), which Japanese Wikipedia calls an Albada finder (アルバダ式外付ファインダーが付属する)
Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6, rubber grip (1974–78):
- Black barrel with the textured rubber focusing-ring insert of the 1974 generation (camera-wiki; Lallement)
- Reflected-frameline shoe finder, magnification not recorded by camera-wiki
- Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6, ribbed ring (1968–73): One of the four launch lenses of September 1968 (Japanese Wikipedia; Lallement).
- Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6, rubber grip (1974–78): Japanese Wikipedia lists the 1974 lens with the same 5群5枚 construction and 2.5m closest focus as the 1968 one; camera-wiki gives no weight for it.
Specifications
- Formula
- Sonnar type per camera-wiki; 5 elements in 5 groups (camera-wiki; Japanese Wikipedia: 5群5枚)
- Construction
- 5 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/5.6
- Shutter
- Seiko No. 0 leaf shutter in the lens, B, 1–1/500 s; M and X sync
- Min. focus
- 2.5 m
- Weight
- 1025 g
- Filter
- 72 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1968–1978
- Country
- Japan
What reviewers say
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History
The Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6 is the telephoto of the Fujica 6×9 system and the longest lens for it that can be verified; camera-wiki finds no evidence for the 250mm that some websites list. It was one of the four lenses launched with the G690 in September 1968 (Japanese Wikipedia; Lallement), a five-element design in five groups that camera-wiki calls a Sonnar type, focusing to 2.5m and weighing 1025 g, with the 72mm filter thread and Seiko No. 0 shutter of the whole line. On 6×9 it is roughly an 80mm on 35mm film. The body finder has no frame for it, so it came with a reflected-frameline shoe finder of 1.0×, which Japanese Wikipedia describes as an Albada type; the rangefinder focuses it as it does every G lens.
The 1974 version for the GL690 and GM670 has the black barrel and rubber focusing grip of that generation, and Japanese Wikipedia gives it the same construction and closest focus, so it is a re-barrelling; camera-wiki records no weight for it and does not give its finder’s magnification. The 1968 lenses sold with the G690 were chrome-finished, those sold from the G690BL onward black.
Fuji’s own finding was that only the 65mm and 100mm sold, and the 180mm shows it: no written review was found, forum owners who have one call it sharp and contrasty, and examples with their finders turn up seldom. Over a kilogram on a 1.2 kg body, it is the lens that makes the outfit heaviest. A Fujinon 180mm f/5.6 offered without the breech-lock bayonet is the large-format Fujinon W in a Copal shutter, a different lens.
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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