EBC Fujinon GX M 65mm f/5.6
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX680 · 1986
Also known as: EBC Fujinon GX 65mm F5.6 · EBC Fujinon GX M 65mm F5.6 · Fujinon GX 65mm f/5.6 · Fujinon GX M 65mm f/5.6 · Fuji GX680 65mm F5.6 · GX680 65mm · Fujinon GXM 65mm · EBC FUJINON GX M 65mm 1:5.6 · フジノン GX 65mm F5.6 · EBC フジノン GX M 65mm F5.6 · フジ GX680 65mm · GX680用 65mm F5.6
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBC Fujinon GX 65mm f/5.6 (plain GX marking) | Fuji GX680 | 1986–1997 | — | — |
| EBC Fujinon GX M 65mm f/5.6 (counter chip, from 1997) | Fuji GX680 | 1997–2010 | — | — |
- Element and group count (10 in 9), closest focus 0.35 m and the φ95 mm attachment thread are from Japanese Wikipedia's Fujifilm product list (Fujinon GX M 65mm F5.6). English Wikipedia's table agrees on 10/9 and 95 mm and adds f/5.6–45, 1,190 g, 107 × 107 × 116 mm and a list price of ¥225,000, calling it a 30mm f/2.6 in 35mm terms.
- 107 × 107 × 116 mm is the lens on its square board; 116 mm is taken as the length and no diameter is given. Blade count is not published.
- The ¥225,000 list price carries no year in English Wikipedia's table and is not indexed.
- Launch year: no source dates the 65mm itself; 1986 is the system's launch, and English Wikipedia says nine unnamed lenses were shown at the 1987 PMA show. Burk was using the 65mm in 2002.
How to tell them apart
- Second-widest GX lens, 1,190 g on a 107 × 107 mm board with a 95 mm front thread, the size it shares with the 80mm f/5.6 and the f/3.2 lenses (English Wikipedia)
- No shutter-speed ring; aperture lever on the lens, Seiko shutter timed by the body
- Front ring engraved EBC FUJINON GX 65mm 1:5.6, or GX M from 1997
- Covers the full movements, unlike the 50mm, but Burk reports the bellows itself limits large movements at infinity on both wide lenses
- Listing trap: Fuji's 65mm lenses for the GSW690 and GA645W are fixed to those cameras; a loose 65mm Fujinon on a square electronic board is the GX680 lens
EBC Fujinon GX 65mm f/5.6 (plain GX marking):
- Front ring reads EBC FUJINON GX 65mm 1:5.6 with no M; no exposure counter chip
EBC Fujinon GX M 65mm f/5.6 (counter chip, from 1997):
- GX M on the front ring; electronic exposure counter read by the GX680III with Film Holder III (English Wikipedia)
- Same optics, barrel, 95 mm thread and board as the GX version
- EBC Fujinon GX 65mm f/5.6 (plain GX marking): The pre-1997 marking. No source dates the 65mm's own introduction; 1986 is the system's launch year. Works on all four bodies.
- EBC Fujinon GX M 65mm f/5.6 (counter chip, from 1997): Introduced with the GX680III in December 1997. English Wikipedia's table gives one set of figures for 'GX (M)'; the counter is the only documented difference.
Specifications
- Construction
- 10 elements / 9 groups
- Aperture range
- f/5.6–f/45
- Shutter
- Seiko electronic leaf shutter in the lens, timed and cocked by the body: 8s–1/400, B, flash sync at all speeds
- Min. focus
- 0.35 m
- Dimensions
- 116 mm long
- Weight
- 1190 g
- Filter
- 95 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1986–2010
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- EBC multicoating
- Original price
- ¥225,000 (maker's list price; year not stated)
What reviewers say
- Danny Burk, The Luminous Landscape (blog) — In his 2002 GX680III review the 65mm is, like the 50mm, large and heavy because of its glass, and shares the 50mm's bellows limitation at infinity with extensive movements; the system's lenses as a whole he calls "stellar".
History
The 65mm f/5.6 is the GX680’s second wide-angle, a 30mm equivalent on the 6×8 frame by English Wikipedia’s table, with ten elements in nine groups, a 95 mm front thread and 1,190 g on its 107 × 107 mm board. It focuses on the bellows to 0.35 m and stops down to f/45. The Seiko leaf shutter in the lens is timed by the body from 8 seconds to 1/400 and cocked automatically, with flash at every speed; the lens itself carries only the aperture lever.
Unlike the 50mm it covers the full movements of the front standard, since Fuji’s lenses for the system were designed, as the company’s history of the Fujinon name puts it, to an 8 × 8 cm circle that holds when the standard is shifted or tilted. Danny Burk, who used it on a GX680III, found a different limit: at infinity with extensive movements the bellows itself gets in the way, on this lens as on the 50mm. He calls both wide lenses large and heavy for their glass, and the system’s lenses in general stellar.
The plain GX marking is the original; the GX M version came with the GX680III in December 1997 and differs only by an electronic exposure counter the III can display. Each works on every GX680 body. No source dates the 65mm’s own arrival, so it is dated from the system’s launch in 1986, and the ¥225,000 list price in English Wikipedia’s table has no year attached. Fuji’s fixed 65mm Fujinons on the GSW690 and GA645W cameras are not related; the GX680 lens is told by its square electronic board and the absence of a shutter-speed ring.
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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