Tom,
I don't see how you can speak with credibility on Fujinon lenses, if you don't even possess the very common knowledge of where they have been, and are, being used. Fuji has long known how to make lenses. They built the first computer in Japan, the FUJIC, in 1956, just for optical design. Fuji has for many years made highly regarded medium format cameras and lenses in 645, 6X7, 6X8, 6X9, and 6X17 formats; they have long made an extensive line of large format lenses which are very well respected; Hasselblad now uses Fuji lenses instead of Zeiss. Fuji stopped making 135 format lenses when they stopped making 135 format cameras.
Fuji is and long has been a highly respected optical shop. My EBC Fujinons for the ST series were excellent, though I have heard that the 24mm, which I did not have, was nothing special. Resolution, definition and contrast stand up just fine to the other makers' lenses of the period, including the Nikkors I later used extensively, and their color rendition is still my favorite.
The first EBC Fujinon lenses were the same optically as the Fujinons of the same focal length and f/stop, except that they were multicoated-- just as Pentax's Super-Multicoated Takumars were the same as the Auto-Takumars.
Do a search for some images from Fujinon and EBC Fujinon lenses. Flickr is a good place to start, but there are others as well. Even on a monitor, the fine definition, contrast and color are clearly evident.
As for the ST701 being like looking through an ice cube- ridiculous.
Fujica ST cameras had large, bright, clear viewfinders. Maybe you looked through one that been dropped or something.
Tom,
I don't see how you can speak with credibility on Fujinon lenses, if you don't even possess the very common knowledge of where they have been, and are, being used. Fuji has long known how to make lenses. They built the first computer in Japan, the FUJIC, in 1956, just for optical design. Fuji has for many years made highly regarded medium format cameras and lenses in 645, 6X7, 6X8, 6X9, and 6X17 formats; they have long made an extensive line of large format lenses which are very well respected; Hasselblad now uses Fuji lenses instead of Zeiss. Fuji stopped making 135 format lenses when they stopped making 135 format cameras.
Fuji is and long has been a highly respected optical shop. My EBC Fujinons for the ST series were excellent, though I have heard that the 24mm, which I did not have, was nothing special. Resolution, definition and contrast stand up just fine to the other makers' lenses of the period, including the Nikkors I later used extensively, and their color rendition is still my favorite.
The first EBC Fujinon lenses were the same optically as the Fujinons of the same focal length and f/stop, except that they were multicoated-- just as Pentax's Super-Multicoated Takumars were the same as the Auto-Takumars.
Do a search for some images from Fujinon and EBC Fujinon lenses. Flickr is a good place to start, but there are others as well. Even on a monitor, the fine definition, contrast and color are clearly evident.
As for the ST701 being like looking through an ice cube- ridiculous.
Fujica ST cameras had large, bright, clear viewfinders. Maybe you looked through one that been dropped or something.
Could be. But in those days I was a Pentax and Takumar fan.
That's great. Almost for a minute made me want one. Except for the remembrance of how absolutely terrible Fujica lenses were in the early 70's. A Fujica ST701 was like looking through an ice cube. Are they any better now? (I haven't kept up to speed on that brand).
Nice! Can you tell us a little about how it works?
Does it have a light meter? I have a 6x9 which btw has a bloody FANTASTIC lens, but the only problem with it is that there is no light meter. How do you think it goes against the Mamiya 7?
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Was this a camera you owned? Purchased New? Or a used camera? Never heard this before, they may have not been the best but the worst? That is a surprise.
They have been making TV lenses for 50 years, as a matter of fact.Tom and Ixdude
Fujifilm have for a very long time been one of the two leading manufacturers (along with Canon) of lenses for broadcast television cameras.
Now I'm wondering whether Tom1956 and Umut are relatives.
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