EBC Fujinon GX M 180mm f/5.6
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 · 1986
single source, unconfirmedAlso known as: EBC Fujinon GX M 180mm f/5.6 · Fujinon GX M 180mm F5.6 · EBC Fujinon GX 180mm f/5.6 · Fuji GX680 180mm f/5.6 · Fujifilm GX M 180mm f5.6 · Fuji 180mm f5.6 EBC Fujinon GX · Fujinon GXM 180mm 5.6 · フジノン GX M 180mm F5.6 · フジ GX680 180mm F5.6 · EBCフジノン GX 180mm F5.6
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon GX 180mm f/5.6 | Fuji GX680 | — | — | — |
| EBC Fujinon GX M 180mm f/5.6 | 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 plain GX form belongs to the generation before the December 1997 M chip. English Wikipedia says the GX680 was shown at the PMA convention with nine lenses, without naming them, so whether a 180mm f/5.6 was among the launch lenses is not known. 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 1.18 m and the 82 mm filter are given by both Japanese Wikipedia (6群6枚, 1.18m, φ82) and the English Wikipedia lens table. Weight (800 g), the dimensions 101 × 107 × 104 mm and the list price ¥195,000 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.
- Minimum aperture: the English Wikipedia table gives f/5.6–45 for the 180mm f/5.6 and f/64 only from the 210 mm upward; a dealer's listing seen in search results gives f/64 for this lens, but that page was not read and the table's figure is used.
- Price: the English Wikipedia table lists this lens at ¥195,000 and the faster 180mm f/3.2 at ¥160,000, the one case in the line where the f/5.6 lens is dearer than its f/3.2 counterpart. The table gives no year for either figure, so the two may come from different price lists; the figures are reproduced as printed.
How to tell them apart
- Engraved EBC FUJINON GX (or GX M) 1:5.6 180mm with an 82 mm front thread; the 180mm f/3.2 GX MD of the same system takes 95 mm, weighs 1,030 g against 800 g and stops to f/32 rather than f/45 (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)
- Not the large-format Fujinon-W 180mm f/5.6 in a Copal shutter, which the GX680 takes only through its lens board adapter and whose shutter the body cannot time (English Wikipedia), and not the Fujinon TS 180mm f/5.6 of the G690 rangefinders, a breech-lock lens with its own shutter and speed ring
- Fits only the GX680 bodies (GX680, GX680II, GX680S, GX680III, GX680IIIS)
EBC Fujinon GX 180mm f/5.6:
- '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; English Wikipedia's 'GX (M)')
EBC Fujinon GX M 180mm f/5.6:
- '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 180mm f/5.6: The first form of the lens, without the exposure-counter chip. No source dates its introduction; the marking places it in the 1986–1997 generation. It works on every GX680 body, the III included, which simply shows no shot count for it.
- EBC Fujinon GX M 180mm f/5.6: The lens as listed in every current lens table, 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
- 1.18 m
- Dimensions
- 104 mm long
- Weight
- 800 g
- Filter
- 82 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1986–2010
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- EBC (Electron Beam Coating) multicoating
- Original price
- ¥195,000 list price (year not stated; English Wikipedia's lens table), where the same table lists the faster 180mm f/3.2 at ¥160,000 and the 150mm f/4.5 at ¥153,000 (today ¥251,000)
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History
The EBC Fujinon GX 180mm f/5.6 is the slower of the two 180 mm lenses for the GX680, Fuji Photo Film’s 6×8 studio single-lens reflex of 1986, a short telephoto that English Wikipedia’s table makes the equivalent of an 82 mm f/2.6 on 35 mm film. Six elements in six groups focus to 1.18 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 it weighs 800 g on a board 104 mm long; the 180mm f/3.2 GX MD alongside it is a seven-element lens of 1,030 g with a 95 mm thread. Fujifilm’s history of the Fujinon name explains the size of every GX lens: the revolving back meant each 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. That distinguishes it from the large-format Fujinon-W 180mm f/5.6 in a Copal shutter, which the GX680 can carry on its lens board adapter but cannot time. Two markings exist. The lenses of the first generation read 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. No source dates the 180mm f/5.6 itself. The plain GX 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; English Wikipedia’s nine lenses at the GX680’s PMA showing go unnamed. The system was discontinued in April 2010.
English Wikipedia’s table lists it at ¥195,000, above the ¥160,000 it gives for the faster 180mm f/3.2, an inversion the table does not explain and which may reflect prices from different years. No published review of the lens was found; Danny Burk, who reviewed the GX680III in 2002 with seven lenses, owned the 210 rather than either 180. Left open: the introduction date, the number of diaphragm blades, the minimum aperture (f/45 by the Wikipedia table, f/64 by a dealer), and the relation between the two 180 mm prices.
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