EBC Fujinon 55mm f/4.5 (GF670W) / Color-Skopar 55mm f/4.5 (Bessa III W)
Fujifilm · Fuji fixed · 2011
Also known as: EBC Fujinon 55mm f/4.5 · EBC Fujinon 55mm F4.5 · Fujinon 55/4.5 · Fujifilm GF670W 55mm f/4.5 · GF670W Professional 55mm · Voigtländer Color-Skopar 55mm f/4.5 · Color-Skopar 55mm F4.5 Bessa III W · Bessa III 667W 55mm · EBCフジノン 55mm F4.5 · フジフイルム GF670W Professional · ベッサIII W 55mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon 55mm f/4.5 (Fujifilm GF670W Professional) | Fuji fixed | 2011 | — | — |
| Voigtländer 55mm f/4.5 (Bessa III W 667W) | Fuji fixed | 2011 | — | — |
- Ten elements in eight groups: camera-wiki and Japanese Wikipedia (8群10枚) agree. Closest focus 0.7 m: Japanese Wikipedia, and Fujifilm's notice gives the rangefinder coupling range as 0.7 m to infinity. The 58 mm filter thread is camera-wiki's figure. No blade count, minimum aperture, weight or layout drawing has been found.
- The Voigtländer name. The family name carries Color-Skopar because that is what dealer listings found in search call the Bessa III W's lens; no source read for this page shows the engraving, and the variant is named more cautiously for that reason.
- Angle of view: Fujifilm's notice gives the 35 mm equivalent as 27 mm in 6×7 and 30 mm in 6×6; Amateur Photographer's Photokina 2010 notice, seen in search, gives 27 mm or about 28 mm.
How to tell them apart
- Never sold separately: a fixed lens in a rigid barrel on the GF670W / Bessa III W, with the focusing ring on the lens itself and the shutter inside; camera-wiki reports breaks in the focusing ring's travel
- Ten elements in eight groups — a far more complex design than the folder's six-glass 80mm, built to cover 6×7 at the angle of a 27 mm on 35 mm film (camera-wiki; Digital Camera Watch)
EBC Fujinon 55mm f/4.5 (Fujifilm GF670W Professional):
- Lens ring reads EBC FUJINON 55mm 1:4.5 on a silver-topped camera marked FUJIFILM (Digital Camera Watch)
Voigtländer 55mm f/4.5 (Bessa III W 667W):
- A Voigtländer trade name on the lens ring of a camera badged Voigtländer and 667W; dealer listings seen in search call it a Color-Skopar
- EBC Fujinon 55mm f/4.5 (Fujifilm GF670W Professional): Released with the camera on 23 March 2011, silver body only.
- Voigtländer 55mm f/4.5 (Bessa III W 667W): The export marking. The lens is the same ten-glass design under Cosina's Voigtländer name; which name is engraved has not been verified against a photograph of the ring for this page, and the Color-Skopar name rests on dealer listings seen only in search results.
Specifications
- Construction
- 10 elements / 8 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4.5
- Shutter
- Electronically controlled leaf shutter, 4 s – 1/500, B; sync at all speeds (Digital Camera Watch)
- Min. focus
- 0.7 m
- Filter
- 58 mm
- Years manufactured
- 2011
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- EBC (Electron Beam Coating) multicoating on the Fujinon-marked lens
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History
The 55mm f/4.5 is the fixed lens of the Fujifilm GF670W Professional of March 2011 and of its export twin, the Voigtländer Bessa III W (667W). Where the folding GF670 carries a six-glass 80mm, the wide camera needed a lens short enough to give a 27 mm view on 6×7 and still clear the film with a rigid barrel rather than bellows, and Fujifilm’s answer is ten glasses in eight groups, by some way the most elaborate optic in the GF670 pair. It focuses to 0.7 m through the camera’s coupled rangefinder, takes 58 mm filters and sits in the same electronically timed 4 s–1/500 leaf shutter as the 80mm, which means the same dependence on a CR2 cell.
The lens is the camera’s whole point and the reason the W costs what it does. Fujifilm made it in silver only and in smaller numbers than the folder; Cosina’s Voigtländer version carries its own trade name on the ring, which dealer listings found in search give as Color-Skopar, though no engraving has been checked for this page. camera-wiki records one handling complaint, breaks in the travel of the focusing ring that some users find awkward. No full review of the lens has been found; forum users quoted in search praise the brightness of the finder it is focused through rather than the glass itself, and the only other witness is the market, where Bessa III W asking prices in 2026 ran to several times those of the folding camera.
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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