EBC Fujinon S 75mm f/3.4 (GS645)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji fixed · 1983
Also known as: EBC Fujinon S 75mm f/3.4 · EBC FUJINON S 75mm F3.4 · Fujinon S 75/3.4 · Fujinon 75mm f/3.4 · Fuji GS645 75mm f/3.4 · Fujica GS645 75mm F3.4 · GS645 Professional 75mm · EBC Fujinon 75mm 3.4 GS645 · フジノン S 75mm F3.4 · EBC フジノン S 75mm F3.4 · フジカ GS645 75mm F3.4 · フジ GS645 75mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon S 75mm f/3.4, fixed to the Fujica GS645 Professional (1983) | Fixed to the Fujica GS645 Professional | 1983 | — | Not published; one lens per camera, and the camera's production is unrecorded |
- Elements and groups from Japanese Wikipedia (4群5枚) and antiquecameras.net (5 elements in 4 groups); camera-wiki gives 5 elements without the group count. No design name or cross-section has been published in any source read here, so the formula field is empty.
- Closest focus 1 m and the aperture range are camera-wiki's; the 40.5 mm thread is Japanese Wikipedia's, confirmed by Rob Hawthorn. Weight, length and blade count are not published separately from the camera, which is 820 g complete.
- Shutter: camera-wiki gives Copal #00, 1–1/500; the T setting is from Hawthorn, who notes the T button has no cable-release thread. Flash synchronises at every speed through the hot shoe (camera-wiki) and a PC socket (Osborne).
- antiquecameras.net cites a Modern Photography test of the lens in the June 1984 issue; it was not read for this page.
How to tell them apart
- Never sold separately: a 75mm f/3.4 Fujinon is the lens of a folding Fujica GS645, and a listing for one is a listing for the camera
- The odd f/3.4 maximum aperture and the S suffix set it apart from the GS645W's W 45mm f/5.6 and the GS645S's W 60mm f/4; the later GA645 lenses read Super EBC Fujinon
- Not a Fujinon-W 75mm large-format lens, which comes in a shutter with no focusing helicoid and no rangefinder coupling
EBC Fujinon S 75mm f/3.4, fixed to the Fujica GS645 Professional (1983):
- EBC FUJINON S 1:3.4 f=75mm on the front ring, mounted on bellows behind the folding door of a Fujica GS645 (camera-wiki; Hawthorn)
- Stepless aperture ring 3.4–22 with small tabs; shutter-speed ring turning the opposite way; ISO scale 25–1600 on the barrel (Hawthorn; Duke)
- 40.5 mm attachment thread and a dedicated bayonet hood that carries the filters (Japanese Wikipedia; Hawthorn)
- EBC Fujinon S 75mm f/3.4, fixed to the Fujica GS645 Professional (1983): The only version. The lens never left the GS645: the GS645W of October 1983 and the GS645S of 1984 carry 45mm and 60mm wide-angles of different design, and the autofocus GA645 of 1995 a new 60mm. Japanese Wikipedia gives 4 groups, 5 elements; camera-wiki 5 elements and 1 m closest focus.
Specifications
- Construction
- 5 elements / 4 groups
- Aperture range
- f/3.4–f/22
- Shutter
- Copal #00 leaf, 1s–1/500, T; X-sync at every speed
- Min. focus
- 1 m
- Filter
- 40.5 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1983
- Coating
- EBC, Fuji's multicoating, named on the front ring
What reviewers say
- Rob Hawthorn (35mmc), on the GS645 (blog) — Sharp at every aperture with smooth out-of-focus rendering and modest bokeh at f/3.4; the stepless aperture tab feels flimsy, and because the meter does not see through the lens a filter on the hood must be compensated on the ISO scale.
- Matt Osborne (MrLeica.com), on the GS645 (blog) — Chose the camera for this lens: a roughly 50mm-equivalent portrait length with a reputation for sharpness, and a leaf shutter whose 1/500 flash sync beats his RZ67 and M9.
- Michael Duke (Emulsive), GS645 against GS645S (blog) — Calls the 75mm "superb" and the slightly faster aperture a point for the folder, while the small tabs of its stepless aperture ring make it slower to set by feel than the S's clicked ring.
History
The EBC Fujinon S 75mm f/3.4 is the taking lens of the Fujica GS645 Professional, the folding 6×4.5 rangefinder Fuji Photo Film put on sale in March 1983, and it exists nowhere else. Five elements in four groups (Japanese Wikipedia; antiquecameras.net) in a Copal #00 leaf shutter of 1 s to 1/500 with a T setting, focusing to 1 m on the camera’s bellows, with a stepless aperture ring from f/3.4 to f/22, a 40.5 mm attachment thread and a dedicated bayonet hood on which the filters are carried. The f/3.4 maximum is an odd figure Fuji never explained in any source read here; on 6×4.5 the focal length covers roughly what a 46–50mm does on 35mm film, the normal lens of the trio against the 45mm and 60mm wide-angles that followed on the rigid-bodied GS645W and GS645S. No design name, cross-section or weight has been published for the lens alone; antiquecameras.net notes a Modern Photography test in the June 1984 issue, not read here.
The lens is the reason the camera is still sought. Rob Hawthorn found it sharp at every aperture with smooth out-of-focus areas, Matt Osborne bought the camera for its portrait length and sharpness, and Michael Duke, shooting it beside the GS645S, called it superb and gave the folder a point for its extra third of a stop over the 60mm f/4. The complaints are about the ring, not the glass: the aperture is stepless with small tabs that Hawthorn thought flimsy and Duke found hard to locate by feel, and because the camera’s meter reads through the finder window, a filter on the hood has to be allowed for on the ISO scale. The leaf shutter synchronises flash at every speed through the hot shoe and a PC socket, which Osborne rates above his Mamiya RZ67 and Leica M9.
Because the lens sits on bellows, its condition is the camera’s: pinholes in the original bellows show up as leaks, the shutter linkage runs through the lens door, and the camera will not fold unless the lens is at infinity with the shutter cocked (Hawthorn; Duke). The GS645 body page carries the camera’s specification, the reviews and the service history; this page carries the 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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