EBC Fujinon 80mm f/3.5 (GF670) / Heliar 80mm f/3.5 (Bessa III)
Fujifilm · Fuji fixed · 2009
Also known as: EBC Fujinon 80mm f/3.5 · EBC Fujinon 80mm F3.5 · Fujinon 80/3.5 · Fujifilm GF670 80mm f/3.5 · GF670 Professional 80mm · Voigtländer Heliar 80mm f/3.5 · Heliar 80mm F3.5 · Bessa III 667 Heliar 80mm · EBCフジノン 80mm F3.5 · フジフイルム GF670 Professional · ヘリアー 80mm F3.5 ベッサIII
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon 80mm f/3.5 (Fujifilm GF670 Professional) | Fuji fixed | 2009 | — | — |
| Voigtländer Heliar 80mm f/3.5 (Bessa III 667) | Fuji fixed | 2009 | — | — |
- Six elements in four groups: Japanese Wikipedia (4群6枚) and Mike Eckman's specification block agree. Seven aperture blades and the 58 mm filter thread come from CameraQuest's Bessa III page, seen only in search results because the site blocks fetchers; camera-wiki gives 58 mm for the GF670W's lens, which shares the body. No minimum aperture has been found in a source read for this page.
- Closest focus 0.9 m (Japanese Wikipedia; Mike Eckman gives 0.9 m to infinity). The rangefinder couples over the whole range.
- Formula: the Voigtländer name Heliar is a trade name here. A classic Heliar is five glasses in three groups; this lens is six in four, and no source read for this page describes its layout. The field is left empty.
- Shutter: Mike Eckman gives B and 4 s – 1/500 with the top speed limited to 1/250 at f/3.5; Fujifilm's notice for the GF670W describes the same electronically controlled leaf shutter with sync at all speeds. The shutter needs the camera's CR2 cell.
How to tell them apart
- Never sold separately: the lens is the front standard of a folding bellows camera, with a tabbed focusing ring directly behind the aperture ring and the shutter inside (camera-wiki)
- Marked EBC FUJINON 80mm 1:3.5 or HELIAR 80mm 1:3.5 depending on the camera's badge
EBC Fujinon 80mm f/3.5 (Fujifilm GF670 Professional):
- Lens ring engraved EBC FUJINON 80mm 1:3.5; the camera's top cover reads FUJIFILM 6×6/6×7 (camera-wiki)
Voigtländer Heliar 80mm f/3.5 (Bessa III 667):
- Lens ring engraved HELIAR 80mm 1:3.5 on a camera marked Voigtländer, BESSA III and 667 (camera-wiki)
- Black camera only; a silver body is always the Fujifilm (Mike Eckman)
- EBC Fujinon 80mm f/3.5 (Fujifilm GF670 Professional): The lens as fitted to the Japanese-market camera, black from April 2009 and silver from March 2010.
- Voigtländer Heliar 80mm f/3.5 (Bessa III 667): The export marking. camera-wiki says the two cameras differ only in markings and lens name, and Mike Eckman calls the Bessa III a name variant of the same camera, so the glass is the same lens under a Voigtländer trade name.
Specifications
- Construction
- 6 elements / 4 groups
- Aperture range
- f/3.5
- Diaphragm blades
- 7
- Shutter
- Electronically controlled leaf shutter, B and 4 s – 1/500, 1/250 at f/3.5; X sync at all speeds (Mike Eckman; Fujifilm's GF670W notice)
- Min. focus
- 0.9 m
- Filter
- 58 mm
- Years manufactured
- 2009
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- EBC (Electron Beam Coating) multicoating on the Fujinon-marked lens; the Heliar-marked lens is the same glass (camera-wiki)
What reviewers say
- Steve Kars (35mmc) (blog) — The optics are the one word "Phenomenal" in his list of pros; the leaf shutter is quiet enough that he hand-holds at 1/8 s.
- Mike Eckman (mikeeckman.com) (blog) — Part of a camera he calls a "modern classic" and close to perfect for general-purpose 6×6/6×7 work; he notes the top speed drops to 1/250 at f/3.5 and that the lens must be at infinity before the camera is folded.
History
The 80mm f/3.5 is the fixed lens of the Fujifilm GF670 Professional and its export twin, the Voigtländer Bessa III 667: six glasses in four groups behind an electronically timed leaf shutter, focusing to 0.9 m through the camera’s coupled rangefinder and taking 58 mm filters. On a 6×7 frame it is a normal lens, on 6×6 slightly long. The two cameras were developed by Fujifilm and Cosina together and built by Cosina, and camera-wiki finds no difference between them but the badges: the Japanese camera’s ring reads EBC Fujinon, the export camera’s Heliar, a Voigtländer trade name borrowed for a design that has nothing of the classic five-glass Heliar about it.
In use it belongs to the camera. The shutter runs from 4 s to 1/500, but only to 1/250 at full aperture, and nothing fires without the CR2 cell; the aperture ring sits at the front of the barrel with the tabbed focusing ring behind it, and the lens must be racked to infinity before the bellows are folded. Steve Kars, who chose the camera over a Plaubel Makina, gives the optics a single word, phenomenal, and hand-holds the quiet leaf shutter at 1/8 s. Mike Eckman calls the camera a modern classic, close to perfect for a general-purpose 6×6 or 6×7 body, and would still not pay today’s used prices for it.
The blade count and the filter thread are the thin spots: both come from CameraQuest’s Bessa III page, seen only in search results, though camera-wiki gives the same 58 mm for the wide-angle GF670W that shares the body. No minimum aperture, weight or layout drawing 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.
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