Fujifilm GF670

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The Fujifilm GF670 is a prototype folding camera taking 6×7cm exposures on 120 or 220 film.

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.

Apparently, the camera will be known as a Voigtlander Bessa III 667 camera outside of Japan.

It is a dual format camera, either 6x6 or 6x7.

Notes

  1. See the pictures and videos of the event in the links at the bottom.
  2. See this post at Capa Camera and this post at David Bram's blog.
  3. "2008 PIE ripōto!", Asahi Camera, May 2008, pp. 168–71.

Links

In English:

In Spanish:

  • Sama, Valentin. "Fujifilm: analógica" in dslrmagazine.com. Fujifilm GF670 at the PMA 2008. Four photographs.

In Japanese:

  • Fujifilm GF670 at the PMA 2008: post and video at Capa Camera