EBC Fujinon GX MD 115mm f/3.2

Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 · 1986

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Also known as: EBC Fujinon GX MD 115mm f/3.2 · Fujinon GX MD 115mm F3.2 · Fuji GX680 115mm f/3.2 · Fujifilm GX MD 115mm f3.2 · EBC Fujinon GXD 115mm F3.2 · Fujinon GX D 115mm f/3.2 · Fuji EBC GX 115mm 3.2 · フジノン GX MD 115mm F3.2 · フジ GX680 115mm F3.2 · EBCフジノン GXD 115mm F3.2

Variants & identification

Variant	Mount	Years	Serial ranges	Production
EBC Fujinon GXD 115mm f/3.2	Fuji GX680	—	—	—
EBC Fujinon GX MD 115mm f/3.2	Fuji GX680	1997	—	—

Year: no source dates the lens's introduction. 1986, the system's launch (Japanese Wikipedia; Fujifilm's own history), is carried as a floor: the GXD form belongs to the generation before the December 1997 M chip, and no source says whether this lens was among the nine unnamed lenses shown at the GX680's PMA debut. Danny Burk's July 2002 review counts three f/3.2 lenses in the line. The end date is the system's discontinuation in April 2010 (camera-wiki), not a lens-specific date.
Construction (8 elements in 6 groups), closest focus 0.5 m and the 95 mm filter are given by both Japanese Wikipedia (6群8枚, 0.5m, φ95) and the English Wikipedia lens table. Weight (870 g), the dimensions 101 × 107 × 95 mm and the list price ¥183,000 come from the English Wikipedia table alone, which gives no year for the price. Only the third figure is entered as length: the first two, 101 × 107 mm, are shared by most lenses of the line and describe the lens unit on its board rather than a round barrel.
The D: no source expands the letter. Japanese Wikipedia says of the group that GXD is the large-aperture f/3.2 high-image-quality design ('GXDはF3.2の大口径で高画質設計'); English Wikipedia and camera-wiki list the three f/3.2 lenses as GX MD without explanation. The English table's aperture range f/3.2–32 is the source for the minimum aperture; the f/5.6 lenses stop to f/45.
The GXD variant rests on dealer listing titles (Kamerastore's 'EBC Fujinon GXD' and others) and on Japanese Wikipedia's GXD term; no maker document naming a plain GXD 115 was found.

How to tell them apart (expand)

Engraved EBC FUJINON GX MD (or GXD) 1:3.2 115mm; a 95 mm front thread where the f/5.6 lenses of similar focal length take 82 mm (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki calls 82 mm the system standard)
Mounted on its own electronic lens board with the GX bayonet, with an aperture ring and a depth-of-field preview lever on the lens and no shutter-speed ring: the Seiko leaf shutter inside is timed electronically, 8 s to 1/400 plus B, and cocks automatically (camera-wiki; English Wikipedia)
The shortest of the three f/3.2 lenses: 115, 125 and 180 mm, all 95 mm filter, all stopping down only to f/32 (English Wikipedia)
Fits only the GX680 bodies (GX680, GX680II, GX680S, GX680III, GX680IIIS); there is no Fujinon 115 mm for any other Fuji system

EBC Fujinon GXD 115mm f/3.2:

'GXD' (or 'GX D') in the name, without the M: the marking dealers use for the lens of the first generation, before the exposure-counter chip of December 1997 (dealer listing titles; Japanese Wikipedia's term for the f/3.2 lenses is GXD)

EBC Fujinon GX MD 115mm f/3.2:

'GX MD' in the name: the M generation carries the electronic exposure counter introduced with the GX680III in December 1997, so the III displays a per-lens shot count; on a GX680 or GX680II the lens works without the counter (English Wikipedia)

EBC Fujinon GXD 115mm f/3.2: The first form of the lens, known from dealer listings that title it GXD or GX D and from Japanese Wikipedia's use of GXD for the three f/3.2 lenses. No source dates its introduction; the marking places it in the 1986–1997 lens generation, before the M chip.
EBC Fujinon GX MD 115mm f/3.2: The lens as listed in every current lens table, with the M chip of the December 1997 generation. English Wikipedia, camera-wiki and Japanese Wikipedia list it as GX MD 115mm f/3.2; the system was discontinued in April 2010.

Specifications

Construction: 8 elements / 6 groups
Aperture range: f/3.2–f/32
Shutter: Seiko electronic leaf shutter in the lens, 8 s–1/400, B; flash sync at every speed
Min. focus: 0.5 m
Dimensions: 95 mm long
Weight: 870 g
Filter: 95 mm
Years manufactured: 1986–2010
Country: Japan
Coating: EBC (Electron Beam Coating) multicoating
Original price: ¥183,000 list price (year not stated; English Wikipedia's lens table), against ¥178,000 for the 125mm f/3.2 and ¥122,000 for the 135mm f/5.6 (today ¥235,000)

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History

The EBC Fujinon GX MD 115mm f/3.2 is the shortest of the three fast lenses Fuji Photo Film made for the GX680, its 6×8 studio single-lens reflex of 1986. On the 56 × 76 mm frame it is a slightly wide normal, which English Wikipedia’s table puts at the equivalent of a 53 mm f/1.5 on 35 mm film. Eight elements in six groups focus to 0.5 m, the diaphragm runs from f/3.2 to f/32, the front takes 95 mm filters where the system’s f/5.6 lenses take 82 mm, and the whole unit weighs 870 g. Fujifilm’s own history of the Fujinon name explains why GX lenses are large for their focal lengths: the revolving back meant every lens had to cover an 8 × 8 cm image circle, eight times the area of the 35 mm frame, and keep covering it under the front standard’s rise, shift, tilt and swing.

Like every lens of the system it sits on an electronic lens board with the GX bayonet and carries its own Seiko leaf shutter, timed electronically from 8 s to 1/400 plus B, cocked automatically and synchronising flash at every speed; the lens has an aperture ring and a depth-of-field preview lever but no shutter-speed ring. The markings changed with the bodies. The lenses of 1986 read GX; with the GX680III of December 1997 came GX M, an electronic chip that lets the III show a shot count for each lens, and which the earlier bodies ignore. The three f/3.2 lenses, 115, 125 and 180 mm, are marked GX MD, and dealers also offer them as GXD or GX D. No source expands the D: Japanese Wikipedia says only that GXD is the large-aperture f/3.2 design made for image quality. No source dates this lens either. Its GXD form belongs to the generation before December 1997, so the 1986 given above is the system’s launch, carried as a floor rather than a documented date; Danny Burk’s 2002 review already counts three f/3.2 lenses in the line, and the system ran until April 2010.

Its list price was ¥183,000, the dearest of the three f/3.2 lenses and half as much again as the 135mm f/5.6 standard lens, though the year of that price is not recorded. No published review of the 115 mm on its own was found; forum owners of the f/3.2 lenses praise their sharpness, but that is anecdote rather than a test. Left open: the introduction date, the meaning of the D, the number of diaphragm blades, and whether a plain GX (rather than GXD) marking ever existed on this focal length.

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