EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6 (GS645W)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji fixed · 1983
Also known as: EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6 · EBC FUJINON W 45mm F5.6 · Fujinon W 45/5.6 · Fujinon 45mm f/5.6 GS645W · Fuji GS645W 45mm f/5.6 · Fujica GS645W 45mm F5.6 · GS645W Professional Wide 45mm · フジノン W 45mm F5.6 · EBC フジノン W 45mm F5.6 · フジカ GS645W 45mm · フジ GS645W 45mm F5.6
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6, fixed to the Fujica GS645W Professional (1983) | Fixed to the Fujica GS645W Professional | 1983 | — | Not published; one lens per camera, and the camera's production is unrecorded |
- Elements and groups from Japanese Wikipedia (5群6枚) and antiquecameras.net (6 elements in 5 groups); camera-wiki gives 6 elements. No design name or cross-section has been published in any source read here. Closest focus 1 m is Japanese Wikipedia's and camera-wiki's; the 49 mm thread is camera-wiki's.
- Click stops on the focusing scale: camera-wiki has 2 and 5 m, Japanese Wikipedia 2.5 m. The camera page records the dispute; camera-wiki's full scale, which has no 2.5 m mark, is the better evidenced.
- Shutter: camera-wiki's Copal #00, 1–1/500, shared by the three GS645 bodies; whether the W has a T setting is not stated. Weight, length and blade count are not published apart from the camera, which is 680 g complete (Wikipedia).
How to tell them apart
- Never sold separately: a 45mm f/5.6 EBC Fujinon W with a distance scale and no rangefinder coupling is the lens of a Fujica GS645W, and a listing for one is a listing for the camera
- Roughly a 28mm equivalent on 35mm film, the widest of the three GS645 lenses (camera-wiki)
- Not the Super EBC Fujinon 45mm f/5.6 of the autofocus GA645W, which has no distance scale and carries the Super EBC name, nor the GA645Wi's 45mm f/4
EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6, fixed to the Fujica GS645W Professional (1983):
- EBC FUJINON W 1:5.6 f=45mm on the front ring of a rigid-bodied Fujica GS645W with a single finder window and no rangefinder (camera-wiki)
- Distance scale 1, 1.2, 1.5, 2, 3, 5, 10 m and ∞ with click stops, focused by scale alone; apertures 5.6–22; ISO 25–1600 on the barrel (camera-wiki)
- 49 mm filter thread (camera-wiki)
- EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6, fixed to the Fujica GS645W Professional (1983): The only version. Fuji used a 45mm f/5.6 again on the autofocus GA645W of 1995, but that lens is a Super EBC Fujinon with its own design and its own page; nothing read here says the two share a formula.
Specifications
- Construction
- 6 elements / 5 groups
- Aperture range
- f/5.6–f/22
- Shutter
- Copal #00 leaf, 1s–1/500; X-sync at every speed
- Min. focus
- 1 m
- Filter
- 49 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1983
- Coating
- EBC, Fuji's multicoating, named on the front ring
What reviewers say
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History
The EBC Fujinon W 45mm f/5.6 is the taking lens of the Fujica GS645W Professional, the rigid-bodied wide-angle 6×4.5 that Fuji Photo Film put on sale in October 1983 as a sister to the folding GS645. Six elements in five groups (Japanese Wikipedia; antiquecameras.net) in a Copal #00 leaf shutter of 1 s to 1/500, stopping down from f/5.6 to f/22, with a 49 mm filter thread and a closest focus of 1 m. There is no rangefinder: the lens is focused by its distance scale, marked from 1 m to 10 m and infinity with click stops at the zone-focusing distances, and framed through a 0.45× finder with a parallax indicator. On 6×4.5 it covers roughly what a 28mm does on 35mm film, and camera-wiki records Fuji’s intention for it as a landscape and mountain companion to a 35mm or 4×5 outfit, where depth of field at f/5.6 and a scale would do the focusing.
The modest aperture and the scale focusing make it the least discussed of the three GS645 lenses. No published test or blog review of the GS645W has been found; the reviewers who cover the line (35mmc, MrLeica, Emulsive, Shoot It With Film, Photo Thinking) write about the 75mm folder or the 60mm GS645S, and Matt Osborne mentions the W only to prefer the 75mm. Wikipedia’s summary of the line, lenses praised and bodies criticised for fragility, is the nearest verdict on record. Fuji returned to a 45mm f/5.6 on the autofocus GA645W of 1995, a Super EBC Fujinon with its own page; nothing read here says the two designs are related.
Two numbers are in doubt. camera-wiki gives the focusing click stops at 2 and 5 m, Japanese Wikipedia a single stop at 2.5 m, which does not appear on camera-wiki’s scale; the instruction manual scanned at Butkus would settle it and was not readable for this page. And no weight, length, blade count or design name has been published for the lens apart from the camera, which Wikipedia puts at 680 g complete. The GS645W body page carries the camera’s finder, meter and shutter detail.
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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