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

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Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company, which originally appeared as a film maker and later expanded as a camera maker.

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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35mm compact cameras

  • Zoom series: Zoom 70 V / Zoom 120 V / Zoom 135V / Zoom Date 70 V / Zoom Date 120 V / Zoom Date 135 V
  • C1 series: C1 Zoom 56s / C1 Zoom 56u

Fixed focus

  • Fujica M1
  • Fujica MA1
  • Fujica MF
  • Fujica PicPAL
  • Fuji Mickey Mouse
  • Fuji DL-10 (Friend)
  • Fuji DL-7
  • Fuji Mickey Mouse DL-7
  • Fuji DL-15
  • Fuji Bene
  • Fuji FZ-5
  • Fuji Hi! Mickey Mouse
  • Fuji Bōei Bene
  • Fuji FZ-6 Tele
  • Clear Shot U
  • Clear Shot M
  • Smart Shot BF

Scale/zone-focus

No exposure meter
Autoexposure
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Fujica 35 FS (click for bigger image)

Rangefinder

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

Autofocus

Fixed focal length
Dual focal length
  • Fuji TW-300
  • Fuji Bōei Cardia Date
  • Fuji DL-250 Tele
  • Fuji Bōei Cardia Super Date
  • Fuji Bōei Cardia 160 Date
  • Fuji Discovery 160 Tele Date
  • Fuji DL 160 Tele Date
  • Fuji New Bōei Cardia Super Date
  • Fuji DL-400
  • Fuji Discovery 400 Tele Date
  • Fuji DL-400 Tele Super Date
  • Fuji DL-270 Wide Date]]
  • Fuji DL-500 Wide Date
Zoom
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 700 Date
  • Fuji DL-500 (Discovery 500) Zoom Date
  • Fuji DL-500 Mini Wide Date
  • Fuji FZ-500 Zoom Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 600 Date
  • Fuji DL-350 (Discovery 350) Zoom Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 800 Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 2000 Date
  • Fuji Discovery 2000 Zoom Date
  • Fuji FZ-2000 Zoom Date
  • Fuji Zoom Cardia 900 Date
  • Fuji Discovery 900 Zoom Date
  • Fuji DL-900 Zoom Date
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35mm panorama cameras

  • Fuji TX-1
  • Fuji TX-2

APS cameras

  • nexia 30 Auto
  • nexia 70 AF
  • nexia 220ixZ
  • nexia 4100ixZ MRC
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Subminiature

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

Instant cameras

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Instax series

Instax Mini series

ACE series
  • Fotorama 90ACE
  • Fotorama 91ACE
  • Fotorama Mr. Handy ACE
  • Fotorama MX900 ACE
  • Fotorama Slim ACE
  • Fotorama Robo ACE
 800 series
  • Fotorama 800AF
  • Fotorama 800S
  • Fotorama 800x
  • Fotorama 850
  • Fotorama 880
  • Fotorama MX800
  • Fotorama Mr. Handy
  • Fotorama Mr. Handy AF
  • Fotorama Mr. Handy MF
  • Fotorama Mr. Handy MF Date
 F series
  • Fotorama F-10
  • Fotorama F-20s
  • Fotorama F-50s
  • Fotorama F-51s
  • Fotorama F-55v
  • Fotorama F-60AF
  • Fotorama F-62AF
 Professional Series
  • FP-1

Passport

  • FP-14 II (4 exposures at once)
  • FP-12 (2 exposures at once)
  • FP-41 (4 exposures at once)
  • FP-452 (2 exposures at once)
  • FP-UL (2 exposures at once)

Medium format

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Digital

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Finepix S5800
by Arty Smokes
  • Fujix DS-1P
  • Fujix DS-300
  • Fuji DS-260HD
  • Fuji DS-300
  • Fuji FinePix 30i
  • Fuji FinePix 40i
  • Fuji FinePix 50i
  • Fuji FinePix 1400 Zoom
  • Fuji FinePix 1700 Zoom
  • Fuji FinePix 2600 Zoom
  • Fuji FinePix 2650
  • Fuji FinePix 3800
  • Fuji FinePix 4900
  • Fuji FinePix A100
  • Fuji FinePix A101
  • Fuji FinePix A120
  • Fuji FinePix A150
  • Fuji FinePix A201
  • Fuji FinePix A203
  • Fuji FinePix A205
  • Fuji FinePix A210
  • Fuji FinePix A303
  • Fuji FinePix A330
  • Fuji FinePix A340
  • Fuji FinePix A345
  • Fuji FinePix A350
  • Fuji FinePix A400
  • Fuji FinePix A500
  • Fuji FinePix A600
  • Fuji FinePix A610
  • Fuji FinePix A800 / A805
  • Fuji FinePix A820
  • Fuji FinePix A850 / A860
  • Fuji FinePix A900
  • Fuji FinePix A920
  • Fuji BIGJOB HD-3W
  • Fuji FinePix E510
  • Fuji FinePix E550
  • Fuji FinePix E900

SuperCCD-based models are named in italics.

Lenses

Interchangeable lenses for 35mm cameras

Interchangeable lenses for medium-format cameras

Lenses for large-format cameras

Film

Despite the increasing dominance of digital cameras, Fuji continues to be a prime manufacturer of film.

colour

black & white

Instant film

Integral film

  • Instax Wide
  • Instax Mini
  • Fotorama ACE
  • Fotorama FI-800GT

Packfilm

colour

  • FP-100C, ISO 100
  • FP-100C Silk, ISO 100

black & white

  • FP-100B, ISO 100
  • FP-400B, ISO 400
  • FP-3000B, ISO 3000

4x5 Packfilm

colour

  • FP-100c, ISO 100

black & white

  • FP-100B45, ISO 100
  • FP-500B45, ISO 500
  • FP-3000B45, ISO 3000

Bibliography

Links

In English:

In French:

In Japanese:

  • ↑ 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.
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