Fuji
See also Fuji Kōgaku and Fuji Shashin Kōgyōsha, two older and unrelated companies.
Fujica G690, Fujinon 100mm f/3.5 silver lens image by Paolo (Image rights) |
Fujifilm Corporation is a Japanese company, which originally appeared as a film manufacturer and later expanded as a camera maker. Before 2006, the corporate name was Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. and many photographers continue to use the name "Fuji" informally.
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Cameras
- 2.1 35mm SLR cameras
- 2.2 35mm compact cameras
- 2.3 35mm panorama cameras
- 2.4 APS cameras
- 2.5 Pocket 110
- 2.6 Subminiature
- 2.7 Disc film
- 2.8 Instant cameras and film
- 2.9 Medium format
- 2.10 Digital
- 2.11 Disposable / Single Use
- 3 Lenses
- 4 Film
- 5 Bibliography and references
- 6 Links
History
Advertisement in Ars Camera January 1946. This is the earliest postwar advertisement by Fuji. (Image rights) |
The company was founded on January 20, 1934 as Fuji Shashin Film K.K. (富士写真フィルム㈱, later translated as Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.)[1], producing several sorts of film.[2] It was an offshoot of Dai-Nippon Celluloid K.K. (大日本セルロイド㈱), founded in 1919.[3] The company's first CEO was Asano Shūichi (浅野修一).[4] The plants were located in the village of Minami-Ashigara (南足柄村, now a city) in the prefecture of Kanagawa (神奈川県), at the foot of Mt. Hakone (箱根山).[5] It is said that the name "Fuji" (富士) was chosen by Asano Shūichi because of Mt. Fuji (富士山), situated not far from Mt. Hakone, but was already registered by a third party, to which the rights were bought for ¥8,000, an important sum at the time.[6]
The company started to produce optical glass during the early 1940s for military use.[7] The dependent company Fuji Shashin Kōki K.K. (富士写真光機㈱, meaning "Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.") was founded in 1944, from the assets of Enomoto Kōgaku Seiki Seisakusho (榎本光学精機製作所), but this was absorbed back into Fuji Shashin Film after 1945.[8] Many other Fuji companies were created after the war, all of them dependent of the main Fuji Shashin Film company and eventually of the Fujifilm Group (富士フィルムグループ).
Fuji began producing cameras in 1948 with the Fujica Six. Until the late 1970s, many cameras made by Fuji were called Fujica, a contraction of Fuji and camera (cf Leica, Yashica etc.). In the mid 1980's the Fujica name change to simply Fuji, in the mid 1990's this changed yet again to Fujifilm.
The company started producing digital cameras in 1988. Fujifilm was the most agile among film makers in adapting to digital imaging. For a while it offered leading technology concerning smaller digital consumer cameras with high-sensitivity CCDs (see Super CCD). It also sold expensive DSLRs and innovative camera concepts like the X100 with hybrid finder, a mixture of optical finder and EVF. Nowadays it is one of the big makers of sophisticated CSCs like the X-T3 with fast hi-res video capability. (see Fujifilm digital cameras).
Cameras
35mm SLR cameras
- Fujica ST-F (1975)
- Fujicarex (1962)
- Fujicarex II (1963)
- Fuji Half SLR design concept
M42 mount
The features of the ST/AZ models are described in the first part (PDF) of a Fuji instruction booklet on all its models, scan courtesy Mike Butkus
- Fujica AZ-1 (1978)
- Fujica ST601 (1976)
- Fujica ST605 (1976)
- Fujica ST605N (1978)
- Fujica ST605 II (1978)
Fujica ST701 image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
- Fujica ST701 (1970)
- Fujica ST705 (1976)
- Fujica ST705W (1978)
- Fujica ST801 (1972)
- Fujica ST901 (1974)
Fujica X mount
- Fuji AX Multi Program
- Fujica AX-1 (1980)
- Fujica AX-3 (1980)
- Fujica AX-5 (1980)
- Fujica MPF105X (1979)
- Fujica MPF105XN (1983)
- Fujica STX-1 (1979)
- Fujica STX-1N (1983)
- Fuji STX-2 (1985)
35mm compact cameras
Rangefinder
No exposure meter
- Fujica 35-M
- Fujica 35-ML
- Fujica SP
Exposure meter but not auto-exposure
- Fujica 35SE
- Fujica 35ML F2.8
Autoexposure
- Fujica 35-EE
- Fujica 35 Auto M (1962)
- Fujica V2
- Fujica Compact D (1969)
- Fujica Compact S (1969)
- Fujica Light Compact S (1970)
- Fujica Compact Deluxe (1970)
- Fujica GER
Scale/zone-focus
No exposure meter
- Fujica 35 (folder), prototype only
- Fujipet 35
Autoexposure
- Fujica 35 Automagic
- Fujica Compact 35 - 1967
- New Fujica Compact 35 - 1969
- Fujica Light Compact 35 - 1970
- Fujica 35 FS - 1971
- Fujica 35GP - 1972
- Fujica GE - 1973
- Fujica GA - 1975
- Fujica Date
- Flash Fujica - 1976
- Fujica Flash (Date) - 1976
- Fujica Flash II - 1978
- Fujica Flash S - 1978
- Fujica Auto-5 - 1980
- Fujica Auto-7 - 1981
- Fuji Auto-8 Date
- Fuji Auto-70 DX - 1985
- Fujica DL-20 - 1983
- Fuji PicPAL 2 - 1985
- Fuji Flash S2 - 1985
Rugged
- Fujica HD-1 - 1979
- Fuji HD-R
- Fujica HD-S - 1979
- Fuji HD-M (Tough Guy) - 1984
- Fuji HD-P Panorama - 1990
- Fuji K-35 - 1991
- Fuji K-28 - 1991
Modern Point and Shoots
Fixed focal length
- Fujifilm Clear Shot/Smart Shot series (Clear Shot M, Smart Shot Plus, V, 60AF etc.)
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Fixed Focus
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Autofocus
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Dual focal length
image by mgtelu (Image rights) |
Zoom
Fuji branded zoom compacts
DL-290 Zoom image by Arty Smokes (Image rights) |
Fujfilm branded zoom compacts. Most American models tend to use the Discovery branding but later cameras share the European branding.
Europe | America | Japan | Year |
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DL-270 Zoom Date | Discovery 270 Zoom Date | Zoom Cardia Super 270 Date | 1994 |
Discovery 265 Zoom Date | |||
Promaster 270 Zoom Date | |||
DL-270 Zoom | Discovery 270 Zoom | N / A | |
DL-270 Zoom Date MR | Discovery 70S Date | Zoom Cardia Super 270 Date MR | 1995 |
Zoom Cardia Super 170 | 1995 | ||
DL-312 Zoom Date | Discovery 312 Zoom Date | Zoom Cardia Super 312 Date | 1995 |
DL-312 Zoom | Discovery 312 Zoom | N / A | |
Discovery 342 Zoom | |||
Zoom Cardia Super 328 Wide Date | 1995 | ||
DL-290 Zoom Date | Discovery 290 Zoom Date | Zoom Cardia Super 290 Date | 1997 |
DL-290 Zoom Date BL | Discovery 290 Zoom Date BL | Zoom Cardia Super 290 Date BL | |
DL-290S Zoom Date | Discovery 290S Zoom Date | N / A | |
Discovery 290 Zoom | |||
Discovery 290 Zoom BL | |||
DL-320 Zoom Date | Discovery 320 Zoom Date | Zoom Cardia Super 320 | 1998 |
DL-320 Zoom | Discovery 320 Zoom | N / A |
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 90 / Discovery Zoom 90 Date / Super 90AZ (38-90) - 2000
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 120 / Super 120AZ (38-120) - 2000
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 145 / Discovery S1450 Date / Super 145AZ (38-145) - 2001
- Fujifilm Super 1200AZ (38-120) - 2001
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 60 / Zoom 60 (38-60) - 2001
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 60EZ (38-60) - 2002
- Fujifilm Silvi 70 / Zoom Date 70 / Zoom Date 77 / Zoom 70 - 2001
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 70 / DL-270 Zoom Super (35 to 70mm) - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 140 (38-140) - 2001
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 140EZ (38-140) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 100 (38-100) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 115 / Zoom 115 (38-60) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date S600 / Discovery S600 Zoom Date / Discovery S600 Zoom (38-60) - 2002
- Fujifilm Discovery S700 Zoom Date / Discovery S700 Zoom / Discovery S770 Zoom (38-70) - 2003
- Fujifilm Discovery S1450 Zoom (38-145) - 2002
- Fujifilm Discovery S1200 Zoom Date / Zoom Date S1200 / Discovery S1200 Zoom (38-120) - 2002
- Fujifilm Discovery S1050 Zoom Date / Discovery S1050 Zoom (38 to 105mm) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000 / Silvi 1000 (28-100) - 2001
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000i (28-100) - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 1300 / Silvi 1300 - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 125S / Silvi 125 (38 to 125) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 125SR - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 125EZ - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 90S / Fujifilm Zoom 90S / Silvi 90 (38-90) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 90SR (38-90) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 90EZ (38-90) - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date F2.8 / Silvi F2.8 (24-50) - 2002
- Fujifilm Silvi F2.8 Black
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 110EZ - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 110SR - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 160S - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 160EZ - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 76S (38-76) - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 115S - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 115SR - 2002
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 60W / Zoom 60W - 2003
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 70V - 2005
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 135V / Zoom 135V / Silvi F135 - 2004
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 120V / Zoom 120V - 2004
- Fujifilm Zoom Date 90V / Zoom 90V - 2005
- Fujifilm Silvi 1600 ( 38 to 160mm) - 2001
- Fujifilm Silvi F120 - 2004
- Fujifilm Silvi Fi (28 to 100mm ) - 2003
- Fujifilm Tiara Zoom ( DL Super Mini Zoom / Cardia Mini Tiara Zoom )
- Fujifilm Natura Classica - 2004
- Fujifilm Natura N
- Fujifilm Natura NS - 2006
- Fujifilm C-1 Zoom ( 28-56mm ) - 2004
Half-frame and Rapid cassette 35mm cameras
Fujica Half image by Andrew Wertheimer (Image rights) |
- Fuji Dual (dual lens half frame)
- Fuji TW-3 (dual lens half frame)
- Fujica Half
- Fujica Half 1.9
- Fujica Drive
- Fujica Mini
- Fujica Rapid D1
- Fujica Rapid S
- Fujica Rapid SF
- Fujica Rapid S2 (24×24 mm on Rapid film)
35mm panorama cameras
APS cameras
Fujifilm uses multiple brandings for their IX240 APS film cameras. Fotonex is the branding used most everywhere, while Endeavor is in the USA, while nexia and EPION are used in Japan.
Fixed focal length
Fujifilm nexia Q1 image by Steve Harwood (Image rights) |
- Fujifilm EPION "Safety First" / RVX
- Fujifilm Fotonex 10 (Endeavor 10 / EPION 10 / EPION Hello Kitty)
- Fujifilm Fotonex 15
- Fujifilm Fotonex 20 Auto / nexia 20 Auto / Endeavor 20 Auto
- Fujifilm Fotonex 50 (Endeavor 50 / EPION 50AF / EPION AF My Melody)
- Fujifilm Fotonex 55AF
- Fujifilm Fotonex 60AF (Endeavor 60AF / nexia 60AF)
- Fujifilm Fotonex 100ix (Endeavor 100ix / EPION 100)
- Fujifilm Fotonex 101ix (Endeavor 101ix / EPION 101)
- Fujifilm nexia 30
- Fujifilm nexia 31 Auto
- Fujifilm nexia 70 AF
- Fujifilm nexia Q1
Zoom
Fotonex 4000SL image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights) |
- Fujifilm nexia Q1 Zoom
- Fujifilm EPION 200Z
- Fujifilm Fotonex 200ix Zoom
- Fujifilm Endeavor 210ix (EPION 210Z)
- Fujifilm nexia 220ixZ
- Fujifilm nexia 230ixZ
- Fujifilm EPION 250Z
- Fujifilm EPION 255Z
- Fujifilm Fotonex 265ix Zoom (Fujifilm nexia 265ix Zoom / EPION 265Z)
- Fujifilm Fotonex 275ix Zoom
- Fujifilm Fotonex 300 Zoom (Endeavor 300 Zoom / Epion 300Z)
- Fujifilm EPION 305Z
- Fujifilm nexia 320ix Zoom
- Fujifilm nexia 330ix Zoom
- Fujifilm Fotonex 4000ix SL (Endeavor 4000SL / EPION 4000) - SLR
MRC Mid-Roll-Change
Fixed focal length
- Fujifilm Fotonex 1000ix MRC Tiara (Endeavor 1000ix MRC Tiara / EPION 1000 MRC Tiara Titanium)
- Fujifilm Fotonex Tiara ix 1010 MRC (Endeavor Tiara ix 1010 MRC / EPION Tiara ix 1010 MRC)
Zoom
- Fujifilm nexia 250ixZ MRC
- Fujifilm Endeavor 260ix Zoom MRC / EPION 260Z MRC
- Fujifilm EPION 270Z MRC
- Fujifilm nexia 270ix Zoom MRC
- Fujifilm Endeavor 260ix Zoom MRC / EPION 310Z MRC
- Fujifilm Fotonex 400ix Zoom MRC (Endeavor 400ix Zoom MRC / EPION 400Z MRC)
- Fujifilm Fotonex 3000ix Zoom MRC / EPION 3000 MRC
- Fujifilm nexia 3100ixZ MRC
- Fujifilm Fotonex 3500ix Zoom (Endeavor 3500ix Zoom / EPION "Cardman" 3500 MRC)
- Fujifilm nexia 4100ix Z MRC
- Fujifilm nexia 2000ixZ MRC Tiara / Fujifilm nexia 2000ixZ
Pocket 110
Pocket Fujica 600 image by Paulo Moreira (Image rights) |
- Pocket Fujica 200
- Pocket Fujica 300
- Pocket Fujica 400
- Pocket Fujica 500
- Pocket Fujica 600
- Pocket Fujica 250
- Pocket Fujica 250 Flash
- Pocket Fujica 250 Tele Flash
- Pocket Fujica 330 Zoom
- Pocket Fujica 350 Wide
- Pocket Fujica 350 Flash
- Pocket Fujica 380 Flash
- Pocket Fujica 450 Flash
- Pocket Fujica 350 Zoom
- Pocket Fujica 550 Auto
- Pocket Fujica Flash AW
- Pocket Fujica Auto Pop
- Pocket Fujica Flash Zoom
- Pocket Fujica Macro Zoom
- Pocket Fujica Hello Kitty
- Pocket Fujica Micky Mouse
Subminiature
These two cameras did not go past the mock-up stage:
Disc film
Instant cameras and film
For all instant cameras and film by Fuji including Instax, ACE, Fotorama, pack film please refer to Fujifilm instant photography.
Medium format
- Fujicaflex (TLR)
- Fujica Six (6x6 folding)
- Super Fujica Six
- Fujipet
- Fujipet EE
Rangefinder
Interchangeable lens
Fixed lens
- Fujica GW690 Professional
- Fujica GSW690 Professional
- Fuji GW690II Professional
- Fuji GW670II Professional
- Fuji GSW690II Professional
- Fuji GW690III Professional
- Fuji GW680III Professional
- Fuji GW670III Professional
- Fuji GSW690III Professional
- Fuji GSW680III Professional
System cameras
- Fujifilm GX645AF Professional - (2003)
- Fuji GX680 Professional - (1989)
- Fujifilm GX680II Professional - (1995)
- Fujifilm GX680S Professional - (1995)
- Fujifilm GX680III Professional - (1997)
- Fujifilm GX680IIIS Professional - (1997)
645 cameras
Manual focus
- Fujica GS645 Professional (rangefinder)
- Fujica GS645W Wide Professional (viewfinder)
- Fuji GS645S Wide60 Professional (rangefinder)
Auto focus
- Fujifilm GA645
- Fujifilm GA645i Professional
- Fujifilm GA645W Professional
- Fujifilm GA645Wi Professional
- Fujifilm GA645Zi Professional (zoom lens)
Panorama
- Fujica Panorama G617 Professional - 1983
- Fuji Panorama G617 Professional - 1985
- Fuji Panorama GX617 Professional - 1993
GF cameras
Digital
For all digital cameras by Fuji (including DS, Finepix, S-series and MX) and earlier still-video models, please refer to Fujifilm digital cameras.
Disposable / Single Use
- Fujifilm QuickSnap
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Colors APS camera
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Fashion 400
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash 1000
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash 400
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Golf - sequence camera, 800 ISO
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Outdoor 1000
- Fujifilm QuickSnap SmartFlash
- Fujifilm Smart QuickSnap Super Slim Outdoor APS camera
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Superia - 800 ISO
- Fujifilm Quicksnap Tele 100mm 800ISO
- Fujifilm QuickSnap Marine / Waterproof - waterproof, 800 ISO
- Fujifilm Quicksnap Panorama
Lenses
Interchangeable lenses for 35mm cameras
Interchangeable lenses for medium-format cameras
Lenses for large-format cameras
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W series
NW series
C-MW series
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SW series
NSW series
SWD series
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A series
C series
L series
SF series
T series
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Film
Despite the increasing dominance of digital cameras, Fuji continues to be a prime manufacturer of film. Please refer to Fuji films
Bibliography and references
- Ars Camera Advertisements by Fuji Shashin Film in January 1946 (p.34) and March 1946 (p.42).
- Koyasu Yoshinobu (子安栄信). "Fuji Shashin Firumu ryakushi" (富士写真フィルム略史, Short history of Fuji Photo Film). In Kamera Rebyū: Kurashikku Kamera Senka (カメラレビュー クラシックカメラ専科) / Camera Review: All about Historical Cameras no.44, December 1997. ISBN 4-257-13013-X. Tokushū: Fuji Shashin Firumu no kamera (特集:富士写真フィルムのカメラ, special issue on the cameras of Fuji Photo Film). Pp.11–7.
- ↑ On the name tag of a Navy Type 99 Handheld Aerial Camera written as: 富士寫眞フィルム株式會社
- ↑ Date and month: Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 4.
- ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 1, and Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
- ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 4.
- ↑ Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
- ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 4.
- ↑ Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
- ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 10, and Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
Links
In English:
- Company history in the English language Fuji official website, and the Japanese version in the Japanese official website
- Structure of Fujifilm's parent company, known as Fujifilm Holdings Corporation
- History of Fujinon Corporation at Company Seven
- Fuji 645 Rangefinder Model Guide www.antiquecameras.net
- Instruction manuals for the Fujica SLR cameras and some medium format models, at butkus.org's OrphanCameras.com
- Fuji camera's in Andrys Stienstra's camera collection
- FUJINON Large Format Lens
In French:
- Fujica/Fujifilm page at Collection G. Even's site
- Cameras and User manual at www.collection-appareils.fr
In Japanese:
- The history of Fujifilm, hosted by the company's official website