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EBC Fujinon GX M 210mm f/5.6

Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 · 1986

single source, unconfirmed

Also known as: EBC Fujinon GX 210mm f/5.6 · EBC Fujinon GX M 210mm f/5.6 · Fujinon GX M 210mm F5.6 · Fujinon GXM 210mm F5.6 · Fuji GX680 210mm f5.6 · Fujifilm GX680 210mm F5.6 EBC · EBC FUJINON GX M 210mm 1:5.6 · Fujinon GX 210/5.6 · フジノン GX 210mm F5.6 · フジノン GX M 210mm F5.6 · フジ GX680 210mm F5.6 · EBC フジノン GX 210mm

Variants & identification

Variant Mount Years Serial ranges Production
EBC Fujinon GX 210mm f/5.6 (1986–1997) Fuji GX680 1986–1997 — —
EBC Fujinon GX M 210mm f/5.6 (1997–2011) Fuji GX680 1997–2011 — —
  1. Launch year: no source dates the 210mm. 1986 is the earliest documented year, the GX680's release, which Japanese Wikipedia puts at April 1986 and English Wikipedia at 1987; the page carries the single-source flag for that reason. The variant split at 1997 follows English Wikipedia's statement that the GX M lenses arrived with the GX680III, which Japanese Wikipedia dates to December 1997 and English Wikipedia to 1998.
  2. Optical construction (5 elements in 5 groups), closest focus (1.43 m) and the 82 mm filter are from Japanese Wikipedia's Fujifilm product list; English Wikipedia's lens table, which it says is drawn from Fujifilm's Japanese lens page, gives the same construction, the f/5.6–64 aperture range, 101 × 107 × 103 mm, 835 g, a 96 mm f/2.6 equivalent on 35 mm film and a list price of ¥160,000. The dimensions are width × height × length of the lens on its board, so no diameter is given.
  3. Price: ¥160,000 is the list price on Fujifilm's lens page as recorded by Wikipedia, with no year attached. Fujifilm's page listed the GX M lenses, so the price belongs to the GX M years (1997–2011); 1997 is used as the price year for that reason.
  4. End date: Fujifilm's list of discontinued interchangeable lenses gives 2011年3月出荷終了 (shipments ended March 2011) for the GX M 210mm 1:5.6, the same month as every GX680 lens except the 300 and 500, which ended in May 2007.
  5. Blade count, the shutter's maker and the number of electrical contacts: English Wikipedia says the shutter in every GX680 lens is electronic and made by Seiko, with a range of 8 s to 1/400 plus B and flash synchronisation at all speeds; no source gives a blade count.
How to tell them apart (expand)
  • A lens on a rectangular GX680 lens board with the GX bayonet, an electronic Seiko leaf shutter inside and no focusing ring: the body's bellows does the focusing (Danny Burk notes the lenses' 'lack of helical mounts'). A Fujinon 210mm f/5.6 in a Copal or Seiko shutter with a focusing scale is a view-camera lens, not this one
  • 82 mm filter thread, the standard size across the GX680 line; the 50, 65, 80, 115, 125/3.2 and 180/3.2 take 95 or 112 mm and the 100–200 zoom 105 mm (Japanese Wikipedia)
  • Marking GX (1986–1997) or GX M (1997–2011) on the front ring; the only difference is the M-series exposure counter read by the GX680III

EBC Fujinon GX 210mm f/5.6 (1986–1997):

  • Front ring reads EBC FUJINON GX 210mm 1:5.6 with no M after GX; the lens has no exposure-counter chip, so a GX680III shows no shot count for it (Wikipedia)

EBC Fujinon GX M 210mm f/5.6 (1997–2011):

  • Front ring reads EBC FUJINON GX M 210mm 1:5.6; the M marks the electronic exposure counter that lets a GX680III display the number of frames shot through the lens (Wikipedia)

Specifications

Construction
5 elements / 5 groups
Aperture range
f/5.6–f/64
Shutter
Seiko electronic leaf shutter in the lens, 8 s–1/400, B; flash sync at every speed (Wikipedia)
Min. focus
1.43 m
Dimensions
103 mm long
Weight
835 g
Filter
82 mm
Years manufactured
1986–2011
Country
Japan
Coating
EBC multicoating, Fuji's Electron Beam Coating, as the name prefix states
Original price
¥160,000 list (Fujifilm's lens page as recorded by Wikipedia; year not stated, GX M years 1997–2011) (today ¥178,000)

What reviewers say

History

The 210mm f/5.6 is one of the long lenses for Fuji’s GX680, the 6×8 studio reflex with view-camera movements on its front standard. Fujifilm’s figures, as carried by the Japanese and English Wikipedia tables, are 5 elements in 5 groups, f/5.6 to f/64, closest focus at 1.43 m, an 82 mm filter thread, 101 × 107 × 103 mm on its board and 835 g, which English Wikipedia renders as a 96 mm f/2.6 equivalent on 35 mm film. Like every GX680 lens it carries an electronic Seiko leaf shutter running from 8 s to 1/400 plus B, synchronised with flash at every speed, and it has no focusing ring: the body’s bellows focuses it, which is part of why Danny Burk found the lenses so light for their size.

It was sold under two markings. The EBC Fujinon GX lenses served the GX680 of 1986 and the GX680II; the GX M lenses arrived with the GX680III of December 1997 and add an electronic exposure counter so that the III can show how many frames have gone through each lens. A GX M lens works on the earlier bodies without the counter, and a plain GX lens works on the III the same way, so the marking matters only to an owner of a III who wants the count. No source dates the 210 itself; the page uses the system’s launch year as the earliest it could have appeared. Fujifilm’s list of discontinued lenses gives March 2011 as the end of shipments for the GX M 210mm 1:5.6, the month in which all but the 300 and 500 were dropped. The list price on Fujifilm’s lens page, ¥160,000, is recorded by Wikipedia without a year.

In use it takes the full set of movements. Fujifilm’s table restricts shift and tilt only for the 50mm, the 100–200 zoom and the IIIS body; the 500 needs its rail. Burk, writing in 2002 with a 210 among his seven lenses, called every lens he had tested ‘of stellar quality in every way’ and treated the 1/400 top speed as the only practical limit; he reports nothing specific to the 210. No dedicated review or test of the lens was found.

When buying, test the shutter on a body, because the shutter is electronic and fires only with the camera’s power: a lens on its own cannot be checked. Look at the contacts on the board and at the glass for haze, and read the ring to know whether the counter chip is present. Left open: the launch year, the blade count, a dated price list and whether anything but the marking changed between GX and GX M.

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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.

Example photos

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Sources (4)

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