W Fujinon 180mm f/6.7 (GX617)
Fuji Photo Film · Fuji GX617 · 1993
single source, unconfirmedAlso known as: W Fujinon 180mm f/6.7 · EBC Fujinon W 180mm F6.7 · Fujinon W 180/6.7 · Fuji GX617 180mm f/6.7 · Fuji GX617 180mm lens unit · Fujinon W 180mm 6.7 617 · Wフジノン 180mm F6.7 · フジ GX617 180mm · フジノン W 180mm F6.7
Variants & identification
| Variant | Mount | Years | Serial ranges | Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W Fujinon 180mm f/6.7 lens unit (1993–) | Fuji GX617 | 1993 | — | — |
- Closest focus 2.7 m and the 77 mm thread are Japanese Wikipedia's figures; f/6.7, the Copal #0 shutter and f/45 as the minimum are from Steve Walton's lens list. No element count, weight or layout has been found, and no review discusses the 180mm on its own.
How to tell them apart
- The only GX617 unit with an f/6.7 maximum; the 90 is f/5.6 and the 105 and 300 are f/8 (Japanese Wikipedia; Steve Walton)
- 77 mm thread like the two wide units, where the 300mm takes 67 mm (Japanese Wikipedia)
W Fujinon 180mm f/6.7 lens unit (1993–):
- A complete module: lens, Copal #0 shutter and focusing helicoid on the GX617 bayonet, supplied with its own clip-on finder (Steve Walton; Japanese Wikipedia)
- W prefix and f/6.7 on the ring; focusing scale to 2.7 m; 77 mm thread (Japanese Wikipedia)
- W Fujinon 180mm f/6.7 lens unit (1993–): The normal lens of the system in angle of view, about a 46 mm lens in 35 mm terms (Walton). No centre filter is listed for it (Japanese Wikipedia). No production figure or end date has been found.
Specifications
- Aperture range
- f/6.7–f/45
- Shutter
- Copal #0 leaf shutter in the unit, B and 1 s – 1/500, cocked before each exposure; X sync at all speeds through the PC socket (Steve Walton)
- Min. focus
- 2.7 m
- Filter
- 77 mm
- Years manufactured
- 1993
- Country
- Japan
- Coating
- EBC (Electron Beam Coating) multicoating (Steve Walton names it EBC Fujinon W)
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History
The W 180mm f/6.7 is the third of the four lens units made for Fuji’s Panorama GX617, the interchangeable-lens 6×17 camera of December 1993: EBC-multicoated glass in a Copal #0 shutter with its own focusing helicoid and clip-on finder, bayoneting onto the body like the others. On the 17 cm frame it gives about the angle of a 46 mm lens on 35 mm film, which makes it the normal lens of a system whose other units are wide-angles and a telephoto. It focuses by scale to 2.7 m, stops down to f/45, takes 77 mm filters and has no centre filter listed against it, the fall-off that troubles the 90 and 105 not being an issue at this focal length.
That is all the record holds. Japanese Wikipedia’s lens table gives the closest focus and the thread, Steve Walton’s list on Emulsive the aperture, the shutter and the 35 mm equivalent, and neither reviewer of the camera shot with it. No element count, weight, price or production figure has been found.
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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