EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4 (GS645S)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji fixed · 1984
Also known as: EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4 · EBC FUJINON W 60mm F4 · Fujinon W 60/4 · Fujinon 60mm f/4 GS645S · Fuji GS645S 60mm f/4 · Fuji GS645S 60mm F4 · GS645S Wide60 60mm · EBC Fujinon 60mm 4 GS645S · フジノン W 60mm F4 · EBC フジノン W 60mm F4 · フジ GS645S 60mm F4 · フジカ GS645S 60mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4, fixed to the Fuji GS645S Professional Wide60 (1984) | Fixed to the Fuji GS645S Professional | 1984 | — | Not published; one lens per camera, and the camera's production is unrecorded |
- Formula: camera-wiki calls it an Orthometar type with 7 elements in 5 groups; Japanese Wikipedia (5群7枚) and Theo Panagopoulos agree on the count. antiquecameras.net alone gives 7 elements in 6 groups. No cross-section has been published in any source read here.
- Closest focus 1 m is Wikipedia's comparison-table figure (1 m–∞, rangefinder); camera-wiki gives none for the GS645S. The 49 mm thread is camera-wiki's and Japanese Wikipedia's.
- Shutter: camera-wiki's Copal #00, 1–1/500; the T setting is Theo Panagopoulos's timed exposure, ended by a second press of the release. Weight, length and blade count are not published apart from the camera, which is 766 g complete (Wikipedia; Duke).
How to tell them apart
- Never sold separately: a 60mm f/4 EBC Fujinon W behind a tubular bar is the lens of a Fuji GS645S, and a listing for one is a listing for the camera
- Roughly a 35mm equivalent on 35mm film (camera-wiki), between the GS645W's 45mm and the GS645's 75mm
- Not the Super EBC Fujinon 60mm f/4 of the autofocus GA645 and GA645i, which carries the Super EBC name and no aperture ring on a manual body, nor the Fujinon GX M lenses of the GX680
EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4, fixed to the Fuji GS645S Professional Wide60 (1984):
- EBC FUJINON W 1:4 f=60mm on the front ring, inside the tubular guard of a Fuji GS645S; rangefinder-coupled, focusing to 1 m (camera-wiki; Wikipedia)
- Aperture ring 4–22 with full-stop clicks and larger tabs than the folding GS645's stepless ring; ISO 25–1600 on the barrel (Duke; camera-wiki)
- 49 mm filter thread; a hood and filters stay on the rigid lens (camera-wiki; Duke)
- EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4, fixed to the Fuji GS645S Professional Wide60 (1984): The only version. The autofocus GA645 of 1995 also carries a 60mm f/4, a Super EBC Fujinon with its own page; nothing read here says it shares this Orthometar-type formula.
Specifications
- Formula
- Orthometar type, 7 elements in 5 groups (camera-wiki; Japanese Wikipedia; Photo Thinking)
- Construction
- 7 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/4–f/22
- Shutter
- Copal #00 leaf, 1s–1/500, T; X-sync at every speed
- Min. focus
- 1 m
- Filter
- 49 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1984
- Coating
- EBC, Fuji's multicoating, named on the front ring
What reviewers say
- Theo Panagopoulos (Photo Thinking), on the GS645S (blog) — Rates the 60mm f/4 as highly as its reputation, sharp with controls that become convenient with use; the hood can get in the way of the rings and the position of a polariser or graduated filter is hard to judge without a reflex view.
- Jennifer Stamps (Shoot It With Film), on the GS645S (blog) — Manual focus "almost too smooth", so careful slow focusing is needed not to skip past the subject; aperture, focus and ISO all live on the lens, and the 1/500 top speed is the limit she works around.
- Michael Duke (Emulsive), GS645S against GS645 (blog) — The rigid 60mm performs as well as the folder's superb 75mm, keeps its hood and filters on between shots, and its clicked full-stop aperture ring with bigger tabs makes the S the faster camera on the street.
History
The EBC Fujinon W 60mm f/4 is the taking lens of the Fuji GS645S Professional, sold from October 1984 with Wide60 added to the name, and the last of the three manual GS645 lenses. camera-wiki calls it an Orthometar type of seven elements in five groups, a count Japanese Wikipedia and Theo Panagopoulos repeat and antiquecameras.net alone gives as seven in six; the Orthometar attribution is camera-wiki’s and no other source read here repeats it. The lens sits in a Copal #00 shutter of 1 s to 1/500 with a timed setting, stops down from f/4 to f/22 in full-stop clicks, focuses to 1 m through the camera’s coupled rangefinder, takes 49 mm filters and lives inside the tubular guard that gives the camera its nicknames. On 6×4.5 it covers roughly a 35mm equivalent, between the GS645W’s 45mm and the folding GS645’s 75mm.
The reviewers treat the glass as the camera’s reason to exist. Panagopoulos found its reputation earned and the results sharp; Michael Duke, shooting it against the GS645’s 75mm, found it performed as well and preferred it for the wider view and the clicked aperture ring with larger tabs, which the folder’s stepless ring lacks; Jennifer Stamps liked everything about it except a focus ring so smooth that she overshoots. Being rigid, it keeps a hood and filters mounted between shots, which the bellows lens cannot, though Panagopoulos notes the hood can obstruct the rings and that judging a polariser’s position is guesswork without a reflex view, and the camera’s finder-window meter does not see a filter at all.
Fuji carried a 60mm f/4 forward to the autofocus GA645 of 1995 as a Super EBC Fujinon; nothing read for this page says the two share a formula, and that lens has its own page. No weight, length or blade count has been published for the GS645S lens apart from the camera, which weighs 766 g complete. The GS645S body page carries the finder, meter, shutter and the disputed launch month.
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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