EBC Fujinon GX M 250mm f/5.6
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 · 1986
single source, unconfirmedAlso known as: EBC Fujinon GX 250mm f/5.6 · EBC Fujinon GX M 250mm f/5.6 · Fujinon GX M 250mm F5.6 · Fujinon GXM 250mm F5.6 · Fuji GX680 250mm f5.6 · Fujifilm GX680 250mm F5.6 EBC · EBC FUJINON GX M 250mm 1:5.6 · Fujinon GX 250/5.6 · フジノン GX 250mm F5.6 · フジノン GX M 250mm F5.6 · フジ GX680 250mm F5.6 · EBC フジノン GX 250mm
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon GX 250mm f/5.6 (1986–1997) | Fuji GX680 | 1986–1997 | — | — |
| EBC Fujinon GX M 250mm f/5.6 (1997–2011) | Fuji GX680 | 1997–2011 | — | — |
- Launch year: no source dates the 250mm. 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.
- Optical construction (5 elements in 4 groups), closest focus (2.56 m) and the 82 mm filter are from Japanese Wikipedia's Fujifilm product list; English Wikipedia's lens table, drawn from Fujifilm's Japanese lens page, gives the same construction, f/5.6–64, 101 × 107 × 105 mm, 925 g, a 115 mm f/2.6 equivalent on 35 mm film and a list price of ¥164,000. The dimensions are width × height × length of the lens on its board, so no diameter is given. A dealer listing found by search gives 1,200 g and a 77 mm thread; the maker's figures are used.
- Price: ¥164,000 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.
- 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 250mm 1:5.6.
- Shutter: English Wikipedia says the shutter in every GX680 lens is electronic and made by Seiko, 8 s to 1/400 plus B, flash synchronisation at all speeds. No source gives a blade count.
How to tell them apart
- 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 250mm in a Copal shutter with a focusing scale is a view-camera lens, not this one
- 82 mm filter thread, the standard size across the GX680 line (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 250mm f/5.6 (1986–1997):
- Front ring reads EBC FUJINON GX 250mm 1:5.6 with no M after GX; no exposure-counter chip, so a GX680III shows no shot count for it (Wikipedia)
EBC Fujinon GX M 250mm f/5.6 (1997–2011):
- Front ring reads EBC FUJINON GX M 250mm 1:5.6; the M marks the electronic exposure counter read by the GX680III (Wikipedia)
- EBC Fujinon GX 250mm f/5.6 (1986–1997): The first marking, for the GX680 of 1986 and the GX680II. No source dates the 250 itself, so 1986 is the earliest year it could have existed; the end year is the December 1997 arrival of the GX M marking on the GX680III. Optically the same lens as the GX M.
- EBC Fujinon GX M 250mm f/5.6 (1997–2011): Introduced with the GX680III of December 1997 and shipped until March 2011 by Fujifilm's own list of discontinued lenses. It mounts on the GX680 and GX680II as well, where the counter is simply not shown.
Specifications
- Construction
- 5 elements / 4 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
- 2.56 m
- Dimensions
- 105 mm long
- Weight
- 925 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
- ¥164,000 list (Fujifilm's lens page as recorded by Wikipedia; year not stated, GX M years 1997–2011) (today ¥182,000)
What reviewers say
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History
The 250mm f/5.6 sits between the 210 and the 300 in the long end of Fuji’s GX680 line, the 6×8 studio reflex whose front standard shifts, tilts and swings like a view camera’s. Fujifilm’s figures, as carried by the Japanese and English Wikipedia tables, are 5 elements in 4 groups, f/5.6 to f/64, closest focus at 2.56 m, an 82 mm filter thread, 101 × 107 × 105 mm on its board and 925 g, which English Wikipedia renders as a 115 mm f/2.6 equivalent on 35 mm film. The shutter is the electronic Seiko leaf shutter common to the line, 8 s to 1/400 plus B with flash synchronisation at every speed, and there is no focusing ring: the body’s bellows focuses it.
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. No source dates the 250 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 250mm 1:5.6. The list price on Fujifilm’s lens page, ¥164,000, is recorded by Wikipedia without a year.
Nothing in Fujifilm’s table restricts movements with it; only the 50mm, the 100–200 zoom and the 500 on its rail lose shift or tilt. No review or test of the 250 was found: Danny Burk’s 2002 system review, the one substantial English account of GX680 lenses, was written with the 210 and 300 and not the 250, and the secondary-market listings that turn up by search are sales copy. One such listing gives 1,200 g and a 77 mm thread, against the maker’s 925 g and 82 mm; the maker’s figures stand.
When buying, test the shutter on a body, because it is electronic and fires only with the camera’s power. Check the contacts on the board and the glass for haze, and read the front ring for the M if the counter on a GX680III matters. Left open: the launch year, the blade count, a dated price list, and any first-hand account of how it draws.
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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