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

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Fujifilm "single use" camera
image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson (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.), producing several sorts of film.[1] It was an offshoot of Dai-Nippon Celluloid K.K. (大日本セルロイド㈱), founded in 1919.[2] The company's first CEO was Asano Shūichi (浅野修一).[3] 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).[4] 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.[5]

The company started to produced optical glass during the early 1940s for military use.[6] 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.[7] 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 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

Modern Point and Shoots

Fixed focal length
Dual focal length
  • Fuji TW-300
  • Fuji Bōei Cardia Date
  • Fuji Bōei Cardia Super Date
  • Fuji Bōei Cardia 160 Date
  • Fuji New Bōei Cardia Super Date
  • Fuji Discovery mini Dual
  • Fuji DL-160 (Discovery 160) Tele Date
  • Fuji DL-250 Tele
  • Fuji DL-270 Wide Date
  • Fuji DL-400 (Discovery 400) Tele Date
  • Fuji DL-400 Tele Super Date
  • Fuji DL-500 Wide Date
  • Fuji FZ-6 Tele
Zoom
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  • Fujifilm DL-270 Zoom ( Discovery 270 Zoom )
  • Fujifilm DL-290 Zoom ( DL-290 Zoom Date / Discovery 290 Zoom / Discovery 290 Zoom Date)
  • Fujifilm DL-312 Zoom ( DL-312 Zoom Date / Discovery 312 Zoom / Discovery 312 Zoom Date / DL-320 Zoom / Discovery 320 Zoom Date )
  • Fuji DL-350 (Discovery 350) Zoom Date
  • Fuji DL-500 (Discovery 500) Zoom Date
  • Fuji DL-500 Mini Wide Date
  • Fuji DL-900 Zoom Date (aka Discovery 900 Zoom Date)
  • Fuji Discovery 2000 Zoom Date
  • Fuji FZ-500 Zoom Date
  • Fuji FZ-2000 Zoom Date
  • Fujifilm Zoom 60 ( Zoom Date 60 / Discovery S600 Zoom Date )
  • Fuji Zoom 70
  • Fuji Zoom 120
  • Fuji Zoom 135
  • Fujifilm Zoom Date 120 ( Discovery S1200 Zoom Date )
  • Fujifilm Discovery S1050 (38 to 105mm)
  • Fujifilm Discovery S1450 (38 to 145mm)
  • Fujifilm Zoom Date 70V
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 600 Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 700 Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 800 Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 900 Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 2000 Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia Super 115
  • Fujifilm Natura Classica
  • Fujifilm Natura NS
  • Fujifilm Silvi 70 ( 35 to 70mm, 2001)
  • Fujifilm Silvi 90 ( Fujifilm Zoom Date 90S / Fujifilm Zoom Date 90EZ, 2002)
  • Fujifilm Silvi 125 ( 38 to 125, 2002)
  • Fujifilm Silvi 1300 ( Fujifilm Zoom Date 1300, 2002 )
  • Fujifilm Silvi 1600 ( 38 to 160mm, 2001 )
  • Fujifilm Silvi F120 ( Fujifilm Zoom Date 120V )
  • Fujifilm Silvi F135 ( Fujifilm Zoom Date 135V, 2004 )
  • Fujifilm Silvi Fi (28 to 100mm, 2003)
  • Fujifilm Silvi F2.8 ( Fujifilm Zoom Date F2.8 )
  • Fujifilm Tiara Zoom ( DL Super Mini Zoom / Cardia Mini Tiara Zoom )
  • Fujifilm C1 Zoom 56s/56u

Half-frame and Rapid cassette 35mm cameras

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Fujica Half
image by egonbja (Image rights)
  • Fuji Dual (dual lens half frame)
  • Fuji TW3 (dual lens half frame)
  • Fujica Half
  • Fujica Half 1.9
  • Fujica Drive
  • Fujica Mini
  • Fujica Rapid S2 (24×24 mm on Rapid film)

35mm panorama cameras

  • Fuji TX-1
  • Fuji TX-2

APS cameras

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Subminiature

These two cameras did not go past the mock-up stage:

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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Digital

For all digital cameras by Fuji (including DS, Finepix, S-series and MX) please refer to Fujifilm digital cameras.

Disposable / Single Use

  • Fujifilm QuickSnap
  • Fujifilm QuickSnap Colors APS camera
  • 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 Marine / Waterproof - waterproof, 800 ISO

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

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