Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 (GA645W, GA645Wi)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji fixed · 1996
Also known as: Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 · Super-EBC Fujinon W 45mm 1:4 · Fujinon 45mm F4 GA645Wi · Fuji GA645Wi 45mm f/4 · Fuji GA645Wi 45mm · Fujifilm GA645Wi Professional 45mm · Fuji GA645Wi Limited · スーパーEBC フジノン W 45mm F4 · フジ GA645Wi 45mm · フジ GA645Wi プロフェッショナル
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645W (1996–97) | Fuji fixed | 1996–1997 | — | — |
| Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645Wi (1997–) | Fuji fixed | 1997 | — | — |
| Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645Wi Limited (1998) | Fuji fixed | 1998 | — | — |
- Maximum aperture is disputed. f/4: camera-wiki.org's GA645W specification and its five-model table; Dante Stella ('45mm f/4 Biogon-style', said of the W and Wi together); antiquecameras.net's table (f/4.0, 7 elements in 5 groups, 0.7 m, 52 mm, the same line as the Wi); Mike Eckman (GA645W 'with a 45mm f/4', the i models adding only a second release and the barcode reader); and the title of an Adorama used listing ('Super Ebc 45 f/4'). f/5.6: one line of camera-wiki.org's text, and a Kamerastore product page that a search snippet reports as '45mm f/5.6, 7 elements' — not read, the page refused the fetch. f/5.6 is the aperture of the manual-focus GS645W of 1983, whose EBC Fujinon W 45mm has six elements in five groups, and both f/5.6 mentions read as that figure carried across the shared W. f/4 is carried; the page's file name keeps the f/5.6 under which it was first listed.
- Construction (5群7枚), closest focus (0.7 m), filter (φ52 mm screw-in) and the fixed barrel are Japanese Wikipedia's entry for the GA645Wi; Mike Eckman's specification and antiquecameras.net's table repeat 45mm f/4 in 7 elements and 5 groups and 0.7 m.
- The GA645W of 1996 carried a 45mm that antiquecameras.net lists with the same aperture, construction and closest focus, that Dante Stella describes in one sentence with this one, and that Eckman records no change to. camera-wiki.org's text gives the W's lens as f/5.6 against f/4 in its own table, a conflict note ¹ records in full; nothing read describes an optical change between the two cameras.
- Equivalent field: about 28 mm on 35mm film (Eckman; antiquecameras.net); Dante Stella says 24mm. The shutter and its 1/400 ceiling are Eckman's specification for the camera. Minimum aperture, blade count, weight and dimensions of the lens alone: not given by any source read.
How to tell them apart
- Fixed to a Fuji GA645W, GA645Wi or GA645Wi Limited body in a barrel that stays out when the camera is switched off; it cannot be removed
- Super-EBC Fujinon W 45mm 1:4 on the front ring, 52 mm filter thread; focused by the camera's hybrid autofocus or an LCD zone scale, with no scales on the barrel
- A GA645Wi body carries two shutter releases and a barcode reader; a GA645W has one release and no reader, with the same lens by every account read
- Not the EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6 of the GS645W (1983): manual, scale-focused, six elements, closest focus 1 m
Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645W (1996–97):
- Fixed to the GA645W body in a barrel that does not retract; 52 mm filter thread
- The body has one shutter release and no barcode reader — a camera with a front release and the reader is the GA645Wi
Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645Wi (1997–):
- Fixed to the GA645Wi body in a barrel that does not retract (Japanese Wikipedia: 固定鏡胴); 52 mm filter thread
- The body has a second shutter release on the front of the grip and a barcode reader in the film chamber
Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645Wi Limited (1998):
- The same lens on the Limited-finish body of March 1998
- Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645W (1996–97): The first body to carry the lens. The GA645Wi of July 1997 kept it, by every account read, and added a second shutter release and a barcode reader; the dispute over whether the W's lens was f/5.6 or f/4 is in the table notes.
- Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645Wi (1997–): Japanese Wikipedia's entry: 固定鏡胴の5群7枚スーパーEBCフジノンW45mmF4, 最短撮影距離0.7m, φ52mm. The same lens served the GA645W of 1996 by every account read.
- Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 on the GA645Wi Limited (1998): Japanese Wikipedia dates フジGA645Wiプロフェッショナルリミテッド to March 1998 and describes nothing else about it.
Specifications
- Construction
- 7 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4
- Shutter
- Electronically controlled #00 leaf shutter driven by a stepper motor: B and 2 s–1/700, limited to 1/400 from f/4 to f/9.5 (Mike Eckman's specification)
- Min. focus
- 0.7 m
- Filter
- 52 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1996
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- Super EBC (Fuji's multicoating)
What reviewers say
- Mike Eckman (mikeeckman.com) (blog) — "Very sharp", fitting a great deal into each frame, with vignetting slight but surprising for a seven-element lens; the 28mm-equivalent field was the camera's best feature. The autofocus behind it was inconsistent — infinity shots came out soft and a mirror selfie missed three times — and the finder gives no focus confirmation.
- Dante Stella (dantestella.com) (blog) — A "Biogon-style" 45mm f/4 shared with the GA645W, with the field of a 24mm on 35mm film; the Wi is the i generation's features on the W's specification.
History
The Super EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/4 is the wide-angle lens of Fuji’s autofocus 6×4.5 line, fitted to the GA645W of July 1996 and then to the GA645Wi of July 1997 and its Limited of March 1998. Japanese Wikipedia, the one source to print its construction under this camera, gives seven elements in five groups in a fixed barrel, closest focus 0.7 m and a 52 mm screw-in filter; Mike Eckman’s specification and antiquecameras.net’s table agree. Its field on the 56 × 41.5 mm frame is about that of a 28mm lens on 35mm film. The barrel does not retract as the 60mm cameras’ does, and like every lens in the line it cannot be removed and has no scales of its own: the camera’s hybrid active/passive autofocus or an LCD zone scale focuses it, and the stepper-driven #00 leaf shutter — B and 2 s to 1/700, 1/400 the ceiling from f/4 to f/9.5 — is its diaphragm.
The same lens, by every account read, is what the GA645W of the previous year carried, though camera-wiki’s text calls the W’s lens an f/5.6 (note ¹). antiquecameras.net lists the W with the identical aperture, construction, closest focus and filter; Dante Stella describes the two cameras’ lens in a single sentence; Eckman has the i generation adding a second shutter release and a barcode reader and nothing else. The W’s lens is catalogued on a page of its own, because camera-wiki.org’s text gives it as f/5.6 against f/4 in that site’s own table, and that page records the conflict in full. Here the aperture is not in doubt.
Eckman’s review of the GA645Wi is the one found that puts this lens to work. He calls it “very sharp”, finds it fits a great deal into each frame, and was surprised to see any vignetting at all from a seven-element design, though what he saw was slight; the 28mm-equivalent field was for him the best thing about the camera. The worst was the autofocus behind it, which left his infinity shots soft and missed a mirror self-portrait three times, with a finder that confirms focus in neither mode — a reminder that a lens with no focusing ring is only as good as the mechanism that moves it. Stella’s one-line description, Biogon-style with the field of a 24mm, is the only other verdict read.
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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