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| [[Fuji DL-180 Tele|DL-180 Tele Date]] || [[Fuji DL-180 Tele|Discovery 180 Date]] || [[Fuji DL-180 Tele|Tele Cardia 180 Date]]|| 1990
 
| [[Fuji DL-180 Tele|DL-180 Tele Date]] || [[Fuji DL-180 Tele|Discovery 180 Date]] || [[Fuji DL-180 Tele|Tele Cardia 180 Date]]|| 1990
 
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| [[Fuji DL-250 Tele|DL-250 Tele]] || ? || N/A || 1987
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| colspan="2" |[[Fuji DL-250 Tele|DL-250 Tele]] || N/A || 1987
 
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| [[Fuji DL-250 Tele|DL-250 Tele QD]]|| ? || [[Fuji DL-250 Tele|Tele Cardia Date]]|| 1987
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| colspan="2" |[[Fuji DL-250 Tele|DL-250 Tele QD]]|| [[Fuji DL-250 Tele|Tele Cardia Date]]|| 1987
 
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| [[Fuji DL-400 Tele| DL-400 Tele]] || ? || N / A||1987
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| colspan="2" |[[Fuji DL-400 Tele| DL-400 Tele]] || N / A||1987
 
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| [[Fuji DL-400 Tele|DL-400 Tele QD]]|| ? || [[Fuji DL-400 Tele|Tele Cardia Super Date]] || 1987
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| colspan="2" |[[Fuji DL-400 Tele|DL-400 Tele QD]]|| [[Fuji DL-400 Tele|Tele Cardia Super Date]] || 1987
 
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| [[Fuji DL-400 Tele Super Date|DL-400 Tele Super]] || [[Fuji DL-400 Tele Super Date|Discovery 400 Tele]] || N / A || 1990
 
| [[Fuji DL-400 Tele Super Date|DL-400 Tele Super]] || [[Fuji DL-400 Tele Super Date|Discovery 400 Tele]] || N / A || 1990
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| DL-450 Tele Super Date || Discovery 400 Tele Plus Date || Super Cardia Tele III Date || 1991
 
| DL-450 Tele Super Date || Discovery 400 Tele Plus Date || Super Cardia Tele III Date || 1991
 
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| [[Fuji DL-500 Wide Date|DL-500 Wide Date]] || [[Fuji Discovery Mini Dual|Discovery Mini Dual Date]] || [[Fuji Cardia Travel Mini DP|Cardia Travel Mini Dual P]]||1990
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| [[Fuji DL-500 Wide Date|DL-500 Wide Date]] || [[Fuji Discovery Mini Dual|Discovery Mini Dual Date]] || [[Fuji Cardia Travel Mini DP|Cardia Travel Mini Dual-P]]||1990
 
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|FZ Tele || ||| Bene Tele||
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| DL-500 Wide Panorama || Discovery Mini Dual Plus || N/A ||
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|DL-500 Wide Panorama Date|| Discovery Mini Dual || Cardia Travel Mini Dual-P(2)|| 1991
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| || || Cardia Travel Mini II|| 1991
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| || || Cardia Travel Mini OP || 1992
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|FZ-6 Tele || ||| Tele Bene||1990
 
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* Fuji DL-270 Wide Date
 
 
* Fuji DL-600
 
* Fuji DL-600
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* Fuji FZ-6 Tele
 
  
 
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Revision as of 06:24, 10 June 2014

See also Fuji Kōgaku and Fuji Shashin Kōgyōsha, two older and unrelated companies.

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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.

History

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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 produced 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.).

The company started producing digital cameras in 1988. Fujifilm was the most agile among film makers in adapting to digital imaging. Today it offers leading technology concerning smaller digital consumer cameras with high-sensitivity CCDs (see Super CCD); it also sells expensive DSLRs.

Cameras

35mm SLR cameras

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Fujica ST701
image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights)

Fujica X mount

35mm compact cameras

Rangefinder

No exposure meter
  • Fujica 35M
  • Fujica 35ML F2
  • Fujica SP
Exposure meter but not auto-exposure
Autoexposure

Scale/zone-focus

No exposure meter
Autoexposure
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Fujica 35 FS
image by Anderson Colla (Image rights)

Modern Point and Shoots

Fixed focal length
Dual focal length
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image by mgtelu (Image rights)
Europe America Japan Year
TW-300 Tandem 1985
TW-300 II Tandem II 1986
DL-160 Tele Discovery 160 Tele N / A 1988
DL-155
DL-160 Tele Date Discovery 160 Tele Date Tele Cardia 160 Date 1988
Discovery 175
DL-180 Tele Discovery 180 N / A 1990
DL-180 Tele Date Discovery 180 Date Tele Cardia 180 Date 1990
DL-250 Tele N/A 1987
DL-250 Tele QD Tele Cardia Date 1987
DL-400 Tele N / A 1987
DL-400 Tele QD Tele Cardia Super Date 1987
DL-400 Tele Super Discovery 400 Tele N / A 1990
DL-400 Tele Super Date Discovery 400 Tele Date New Super Tele Cardia Date 1990
DL-450 Tele Super Discovery 400 Tele Plus N / A 1991
DL-450 Tele Super Date Discovery 400 Tele Plus Date Super Cardia Tele III Date 1991
DL-500 Wide Date Discovery Mini Dual Date Cardia Travel Mini Dual-P 1990
DL-500 Wide Panorama Discovery Mini Dual Plus N/A
DL-500 Wide Panorama Date Discovery Mini Dual Cardia Travel Mini Dual-P(2) 1991
Cardia Travel Mini II 1991
Cardia Travel Mini OP 1992
Cardia Travel Mini Elite OP 1993
FZ-6 Tele Tele Bene 1990
  • Fuji DL-600
Zoom
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DL-290 Zoom
image by Arty Smokes (Image rights)

Half-frame and Rapid cassette 35mm cameras

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Fujica Half
image by clicks_1000 (Image rights)

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 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
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Fujifilm nexia Q1
image by Steve Harwood (Image rights)

Zoom

MRC Mid-Roll-Change

Fixed focal length

Zoom

Pocket 110

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Pocket 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 350 Wide
  • Pocket Fujica 350 Flash
  • Pocket Fujica 380 Flash
  • Pocket Fujica 350 Zoom
  • Pocket Fujica 550 Auto
  • Pocket Fujica 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

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For all instant cameras and film by Fuji including Instax, ACE, Fotorama, pack film please refer to Fujifilm instant photography.

Medium format

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Rangefinder

Interchangeable lens

Fixed lens

System cameras

645 cameras

Manual focus

Auto focus

Panorama

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

Lenses

Interchangeable lenses for 35mm cameras

Interchangeable lenses for medium-format cameras

Lenses for large-format cameras

SWD series

  • 65mm f5.6-45
  • 75mm f5.6-64
  • 90mm f5.6-64

SW series

  • 75mm f8-64
  • 105mm f8-64
  • 120mm f8-64
  • 300mm f8-64

T series

  • 400mm f8-64

W series

  • 150mm f5.6-64

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

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Date and month: Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 4.
  3. ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 1, and Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
  4. ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 4.
  5. ↑ Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
  6. ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 4.
  7. ↑ Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.
  8. ↑ Fujifilm history, vol.1, chapter 10, and Koyasu, p.11 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.44.

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