EBC Fujinon GX M 135mm f/5.6
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 · 1986
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Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon GX 135mm f/5.6 (1986–1997) | Fuji GX680 | 1986–1997 | — | — |
| EBC Fujinon GX M 135mm f/5.6 (1997–2010) | Fuji GX680 | 1997–2010 | — | — |
- Year: the 135mm f/5.6 is the standard lens of the system (camera-wiki) and 'the most common kit lens' (English Wikipedia), so its first year is taken as the body's. The body's own date is disputed: Japanese Wikipedia gives April 1986 for the フジGX680プロフェッショナル and Fujifilm's history of the Fujinon name says the GX680 Professional was released in 1986, while English Wikipedia says it was introduced in 1987 and shown with nine lenses at the PMA convention. 1986 is the better-evidenced figure, with the maker and the dated Japanese entry behind it; 1987 may be the American introduction. The end date is the system's discontinuation in April 2010 (camera-wiki), not a lens-specific date.
- Construction (6 elements in 6 groups), closest focus 0.64 m and the 82 mm filter are given by both Japanese Wikipedia (6群6枚, 0.64m, φ82) and the English Wikipedia lens table. Weight (565 g), the dimensions 101 × 107 × 79 mm and the list price ¥122,000 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.
- 'Lightest': Danny Burk calls the 135mm f/5.6 'the lightest normal lens' of the system; English Wikipedia's table puts the 125mm f/5.6 20 g lighter at 545 g. Burk's set did not include the 125. The English table gives f/5.6–45 as the aperture range.
How to tell them apart
- Engraved EBC FUJINON GX (or GX M) 1:5.6 135mm with an 82 mm front thread; at 79 mm on its board it is the shortest lens of the line (English Wikipedia)
- 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 lens most GX680 bodies are sold with, so a body offered 'with lens' usually carries this one (English Wikipedia; camera-wiki)
- Not the large-format Fujinon-W 135mm f/5.6 in a Copal shutter, which has a shutter-speed ring and no GX board, and not the Fujinon 135 mm lenses for the Fujica 35 mm SLRs
EBC Fujinon GX 135mm f/5.6 (1986–1997):
- 'GX' alone in the name: the marking of the lenses made from the GX680's launch until the M chip of December 1997 (camera-wiki, which names 'a EBC Fujinon GX 135mm f/5.6' as the standard lens; English Wikipedia's 'GX (M)')
EBC Fujinon GX M 135mm f/5.6 (1997–2010):
- 'GX M' 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 GX 135mm f/5.6 (1986–1997): The original standard lens of the GX680 of April 1986, without the exposure-counter chip. It works on every GX680 body, the III included, which simply shows no shot count for it. The end year is the arrival of the GX M marking, not a documented end of production.
- EBC Fujinon GX M 135mm f/5.6 (1997–2010): The lens as sold with the GX680III and IIIS, with the M chip of the December 1997 generation; the system was discontinued in April 2010.
Specifications
- Construction
- 6 elements / 6 groups
- Aperture range
- f/5.6–f/45
- Shutter
- Seiko electronic leaf shutter in the lens, 8 s–1/400, B; flash sync at every speed
- Min. focus
- 0.64 m
- Dimensions
- 79 mm long
- Weight
- 565 g
- Filter
- 82 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1986–2010
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- EBC (Electron Beam Coating) multicoating
- Original price
- ¥122,000 list price (year not stated; English Wikipedia's lens table), the cheapest lens of the line: the 125mm f/5.6 was ¥142,000 and the 150mm f/4.5 ¥153,000 (today ¥157,000)
What reviewers say
- Danny Burk (Luminous Landscape), GX680III with the 135 among seven lenses, on film in the field (blog) — A landscape photographer's review of the camera rather than the lens, written in July 2002: with the 135mm f/5.6, the lightest normal lens, the outfit weighs just under ten pounds, and of the lenses he owns, 50 to 500 mm, "each lens that I've tested is of stellar quality in every way", the 50 mm alone running out of image circle under large movements. His verdict on the system is "an ideal compromise" between medium and large format.
History
The EBC Fujinon GX 135mm f/5.6 is the standard lens of the GX680, Fuji Photo Film’s 6×8 studio single-lens reflex, and the lens most bodies were sold with: camera-wiki names it the standard lens and English Wikipedia calls it the most common kit lens of the system. On the 56 × 76 mm frame it is a normal lens, the equivalent of a 62 mm on 35 mm film. Six elements in six groups focus to 0.64 m, the diaphragm runs from f/5.6 to f/45, the front takes the 82 mm filters that camera-wiki calls the system standard, and at 79 mm on its board and 565 g it is the shortest lens of the line and, after the 125mm f/5.6, the lightest. Fujifilm’s history of the Fujinon name explains why a 135 mm f/5.6 still weighs over half a kilo: the revolving back meant every GX lens had to cover an 8 × 8 cm image circle, eight times 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. Two markings exist. The lens of 1986 reads GX; with the GX680III of December 1997 came GX M, a chip that lets the III show a shot count for each lens, and which the GX680 and GX680II ignore, as the III ignores its absence on an older lens. When the first GX680 appeared is itself disputed, Japanese Wikipedia and Fujifilm giving 1986 and English Wikipedia 1987 with a showing of nine lenses at the PMA convention; the maker’s date is the better evidenced. The system was discontinued in April 2010, Fujifilm counting thirteen GX lenses by then.
At ¥122,000 it was the cheapest lens of the line, though the year of that list price is not recorded. Danny Burk, reviewing the GX680III for Luminous Landscape in 2002 as a landscape camera carried in the field, used it as the lightest normal lens of an outfit that still weighed just under ten pounds, and found every GX lens he had tested, 50 to 500 mm, of stellar quality, only the 50 running out of image circle under large movements. No review of the 135 on its own was found. Left open: the number of diaphragm blades and the year of the price.
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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