Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 (GA645)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji fixed · 1995
Also known as: Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 · Super-EBC Fujinon 60mm 1:4 · Fujinon 60mm F4 GA645 · Fuji GA645 60mm f/4 · Fuji GA645i 60mm f/4 · Fujifilm GA645 Professional 60mm · Fujifilm GA645i Professional 60mm · スーパーEBC フジノン 60mm F4 · フジ GA645 60mm F4 · フジ GA645i 60mm F4
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 on the GA645 (1995–97) | Fuji fixed | 1995–1997 | — | — |
| Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 on the GA645i and GA645i Limited (1997–) | Fuji fixed | 1997 | — | — |
- Construction is disputed. Seven elements in six groups: Japanese Wikipedia (6群7枚, in its GA645i entry), camera-wiki.org's GA645 specification, and antiquecameras.net's table for both the GA645 and the GA645i. Six elements in five groups, 'multicoated planar-type': Dante Stella. Three sources against one; 7/6 is carried. No cross-section or Fuji document was found to settle it.
- Closest focus: 0.7 m from Japanese Wikipedia, camera-wiki.org, antiquecameras.net, Matt Osborne and Jen Golay. Dante Stella gives the AF range as 0.6 m (2.3 ft) to infinity, with a manual-focus scale stepping 2.3, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 30 ft and infinity, and says the AF has 900 steps.
- Minimum aperture: f/22, from camera-wiki.org's statement that the 1/700 speed is available at f/11 and f/22, repeated as 'f/11–f/22' by Osborne and Golay. No source prints an aperture scale as such.
- The shutter is the camera's, timed by its electronics; the speeds, the 1/400 ceiling at f/4–f/9.5 and the self-timer are camera-wiki.org's GA645 specification. Dante Stella gives manual speeds to 1/500 and 1/700 at f/11 or f/16, the only figures that differ.
- Equivalent field: about 37 mm on 35mm film (antiquecameras.net). Weight, length and diameter: not published separately from the camera (815 g without batteries) by any source read.
- Blade count: not given by any source read.
How to tell them apart
- Fixed to a Fuji GA645 or GA645i body and retracting into it when the camera is switched off; it cannot be removed, so a lens offered on its own is a parts lens
- Super-EBC Fujinon 60mm 1:4 on the front ring, 52 mm filter thread; focused by the camera's hybrid active/passive autofocus or a zone scale on the LCD, with no distance or depth-of-field scale on the barrel
- Not the EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4 of the GS645S (1984): that lens is manual-focus in a fixed barrel, seven elements in five groups, with a 49 mm thread and a coupled rangefinder
- The GA645Wi's 45mm f/4 and the GA645Zi's 55–90mm are the other Super-EBC lenses on this body; the 45mm barrel does not retract
Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 on the GA645 (1995–97):
- Fixed to the GA645 body; retracts into the body when the camera is switched off (Dante Stella; Japanese Wikipedia's 電源に連動して自動で沈胴 for the i)
- Super-EBC Fujinon 60mm 1:4 on the front ring, 52 mm filter thread
Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 on the GA645i and GA645i Limited (1997–):
- The same retracting 60mm on the GA645i body, which has a second shutter release on the front of the grip and a barcode reader in the film chamber
- Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 on the GA645 (1995–97): The launch carrier. The lens is the same on both bodies; the variants are the two cameras it was built into.
- Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 on the GA645i and GA645i Limited (1997–): Japanese Wikipedia prints the lens data under the GA645i: 6群7枚 スーパーEBCフジノン60mmF4, 0.7 m, φ52. Nothing read describes any optical change between the two bodies, and Dante Stella lists none; the GA645i Limited of March 1998 is a finish.
Specifications
- Construction
- 7 elements / 6 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4–f/22
- Shutter
- Electronically controlled #00 leaf shutter driven by a stepper motor: 2 s–1/700, with 1/400 the fastest speed from f/4 to f/9.5 and 1/700 only at f/11–f/22; B in manual mode; 10 s self-timer
- Min. focus
- 0.7 m
- Filter
- 52 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1995
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- Super EBC (Fuji's multicoating)
What reviewers say
- Matt Osborne (MrLeica.com), on the GA645 (blog) — "The Fujion 60mm f4 lens is crazy sharp!" — "super sharp wide open at f4", with a pleasing soft background when it is close, and "the sharpest 645 I have used"; the f/4 maximum he treats as a creative limit rather than a fault.
- Jen Golay (Shoot It With Film), on the GA645 (blog) — "A very sharp image" from a lens with "snappy" autofocus that nonetheless struggles with very close subjects and highly textured scenes; the slow f/4 is on her list of drawbacks.
- Anil Mistry (EMULSIVE), on the GA645i (blog) — "Super sharp, and renders beautiful images": street portraits on Portra 400 and Acros 100 that are "crisp and full of detail but not overly clinical".
- Dante Stella (dantestella.com) (blog) — "Deadly sharp", still pleasant wide open, driven by a 900-step hybrid AF; he describes it as a six-element, five-group planar type, the one source to do so.
History
The Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 is the standard lens of Fuji’s autofocus 6×4.5 line, built into the GA645 Professional of July 1995 and carried unchanged into the GA645i of July 1997 and its Limited of March 1998. On the 56 × 41.5 mm frame it gives about the field of a 37mm lens on 35mm film. It is a fixed lens in the full sense: it cannot be removed, it retracts into the body when the camera is switched off — Japanese Wikipedia’s phrase is that it collapses automatically in step with the power switch — and it has no focusing ring, distance scale or aperture ring of its own, being focused by the camera’s hybrid active/passive autofocus or by a zone scale on the LCD and stopped down by the camera’s electronics in the #00 leaf shutter that doubles as its diaphragm housing. Filters are 52 mm.
Its construction is reported two ways. Japanese Wikipedia, camera-wiki.org and antiquecameras.net give seven elements in six groups; Dante Stella, whose notes are otherwise the most detailed on the line, calls it a six-element, five-group planar type. No cross-section was found, and 7/6 is carried on numbers. Closest focus is 0.7 m by every source but Stella, who gives the 900-step autofocus a range from 0.6 m and a manual scale beginning at 2.3 ft, and who recommends photocopying the manual’s depth-of-field tables because the lens carries none. The shutter it lives in runs from 2 s to 1/700, but 1/700 only at f/11 and f/22; from f/4 to f/9.5 the ceiling is 1/400, so in bright light the wide apertures that make an f/4 lens worth having are the ones the camera can least use.
On the glass itself the reviews do not disagree. Matt Osborne, who owned two GA645s, calls the 60mm “crazy sharp”, “super sharp wide open at f4” and “the sharpest 645 I have used”; Jen Golay gets “a very sharp image” from a lens whose autofocus is “snappy” but unreliable on very close or finely textured subjects; Anil Mistry’s street portraits on the GA645i are “crisp and full of detail but not overly clinical”; Stella’s word is “deadly sharp”, and still pleasant at full aperture. The maximum aperture is the complaint — Golay lists the slow f/4 among the camera’s drawbacks and Osborne turns it into a creative limit — and the only other is that, being fixed, it is the one focal length the camera will ever have. A 45mm f/4 wide-angle and a 55–90mm zoom were the line’s answers, each in a body of its own.
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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