Fujifilm GF670
The Fujifilm GF670 is a prototype folding camera taking 6×7cm exposures on 120 or 220 film.
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Public display
Two prototypes were showed by Fujifilm at the PMA 2008 salon, one in silver finish and the other in black.[1] It is not known if these were functional prototypes or mere mock-ups. The camera is currently (Feb 9, 2008) not mentioned in the company's website, and the name "Fujifilm GF670" itself is not officially confirmed; the top housing is merely inscribed FUJIFILM 6×7. A rumor says that definitive prototypes would be showed at the 2008 Photokina, and that commercial release in scheduled for the end of 2008.[2] At about the time of the Photo and Imaging Expo (Tokyo, March 2008), Fujifilm said that the camera would be put on the market by the end of the year.[3]
Description
The camera has a Fujinon 80/3.5 lens, a coupled rangefinder, aperture-priority automatic and manual exposure modes and an exposure compensator. The film is advanced by a knob at the top right, as seen by the photographer, and there is a round exposure counter window next to it. The knob at the top left controls the shutter speeds in manual mode and has an A position for aperture-priority automation. It also contains the ISO setting dial, and provides -2/+2 exposure compensation. There is a hot shoe above the top housing and a PC synch socket at the left end. The shape of the front standard is very close to that of the Voigtländer Bessa II or Vito III of the 1950s, probably deliberately. The tabbed focusing ring is placed just behind the aperture ring. It seems that the meter cell is placed next to the rangefinder window, to the front of the top housing.
Notes
- ↑ See the pictures and videos of the event in the links at the bottom.
- ↑ See this post at Capa Camera and this post at David Bram's blog.
- ↑ "2008 PIE ripōto!", Asahi Camera, May 2008, pp. 168–71.
Links
In English:
- News release about the PMA 2008, briefly mentioning the GF670 as a "new portable medium-format film camera", at Fujifilm USA
- Bram, David. Fujifilm GF670 post in Bram's blog. Bram provides links, commentary and some thought about the camera.
- Cheesman, Chris. "Fujifilm Plans Medium Format Folding Camera". Amateur Photographer, 1 February 2008. Fujifilm GF670 at the PMA 2008; says little.
- Hissink, Dennis. "Fujifilm Medium Format Camera". Fujifilm GF670 at the PMA 2008, in letsgodigital.org. Recycles a bland and uninformative press release, but also has two photographs. A third photograph shows three people who are presumably members of Fujifilm's R&D staff; none is shown holding a folder.
- McComb, Andrew R. Fujifilm GF670 at the PMA 2008. McComb shows photographs but says nothing substantive; yet he's more eloquent than those who comment on what he writes.
- More photos of this and the less surprising Fujifilm novelties.
- Thread about the GF670 at the PMA 2008, in photo.net. Much chitchat, little that's substantive.
- Thread about the GF670 at the PMA 2008, in nelsonfoto.com. Similar to photo.net but without the squabbling.
In Spanish:
- Sama, Valentin. "Fujifilm: analógica" in dslrmagazine.com. Fujifilm GF670 at the PMA 2008. Four photographs.
In Japanese: