The
Fujica
Fujica is the name given by Fujifilm of Japan to its line of still-photography and motion picture cameras.
History
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 Pho ...
X-mount was a
lens mount
A lens mount is an interface – mechanical and often also electrical – between a photographic camera body and a lens. It is a feature of camera systems where the System camera, body allows interchangeable lenses, most usually the rangefinder ...
created by
Fujifilm
, trading as , or simply Fuji, is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the areas of photography, optics, Office supplies, office and Biomedical engine ...
in the late 1970s and early 1980s for the new Fujica
SLR lineup: AX-1, AX-3, AX-5, AX Multi, STX-1, STX-1N, STX-2, MPF105X, MPF105XN. It replaced the
M42 screw mount used on their earlier SLRs.
The mount is a
bayonet
A bayonet (from Old French , now spelt ) is a -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , now spelt ) is a knife, dagger">knife">-4; we might wonder whethe ...
type, with a 65° clockwise lock, and a
flange focal distance
For an interchangeable lens camera, the flange focal distance (FFD) (also known as the flange-to-film distance, flange focal depth, flange back distance (FBD), flange focal length (FFL), back focus or register, depending on the usage and source ...
of 43.5 mm.
[AX-1 owner's manual]
With the advent of
autofocus
An autofocus (AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system h ...
, the Fujica series of
35 mm SLR cameras was discontinued in 1985, rendering this mount obsolete.
Fuji would return to the SLR market in 2000 with a series of
digital SLR
A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor.
The reflex des ...
cameras starting with the
FinePix S1 Pro, but these were based on
Nikon
(, ; ) is a Japanese optics and photographic equipment manufacturer. Nikon's products include cameras, camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, ophthalmic lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, spotting scopes, and equipment related to S ...
designs and used the autofocus version of the
Nikon F-mount
The Nikon F-mount is a type of interchangeable lens mount developed by Nikon for its 35mm format single-lens reflex cameras. The F-mount was first introduced on the Nikon F camera in 1959, and features a three-lug bayonet mount with a 44mm thro ...
.
Fujifilm introduced a line of twenty-seven X-
Fujinon
Fujinon is a brand of optical lenses made by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd, now known as Fujifilm. Fujifilm's Fujinon lenses have been used by professional photographers and broadcast stations as well as cinematography. Fujifilm started manufacture ...
lenses with this mount (as well as three Fujinar lenses):
Fujifilm X-Fujinon lenses
The following lists Fujifilm X-Fujinon lenses with this mount (not including Fujinar lenses with this mount).
Not on that list are the following lenses:
EBC X-Fujinon SW 28mm 1:1.9 DMEBC X-Fujinon W 35mm 1:1.9 DMX-Fujinon 50mm 1:1.9 DMEBC X-Fujinon 55mm 1:1.6 DMX-Fujinon 55mm 1:1.6 DMEBC X-Fujinon Z 35-70mm 1:2.8-3.7 DM
EBC X-Fujinon Z 70-140mm 1:4-4.5 DM
The Fujinar lenses are:
X-Fujinar W 28mm 1:2.8 DMX-Fujinar T 135mm 1:2.8 DMX-Fujinar Z 80-200mm 1:3.8 DM
The "no-DM" lens cannot be used for program and shutter priority exposure modes of the AX-5 SLR; aperture priority and manual mode will work.
Accessories
There were some accessories that complied with Fujica X-mount:
* The "mount adapter X-S and X-D" for M42 lenses.
* Two extension tubes : X25 (25 mm) and X50 (50 mm).
* The "auto bellows X" used with a 50 mm lens can provide 1 to 3× magnification. It can also be used with the "focusing rail X". The Fujica "slide copier X" mounted on the "focusing rail X" simplifies the copying of 135 film pictures.
* The "macro cine copy X" is a macro lens with specific windows to take copies from 8 mm and 16 mm films.
* The "microscope adapter X" to adapt the camera body to a microscope.
* A "reverse adapter X", that can be mounted with an extension tube.
* A classic "teleconverter 2X".
* Fuji Photo Recorder back. This data back was interchangeable with the standard camera back and was equipped with a hand-writing pen that is inter-linked with a "light pen" for printing in data (up to 80 characters) in the bottom-left corner of the image. The back can be easily detached by pushing down on the hinge pin.
See also
*
Fujifilm X-mount
The Fujifilm X-mount is a lens mount for Fujifilm interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras in its X-series, designed for 23.6mm x 15.6mm APS-C sensors.
Various lens manufacturers use this mount, such as Fujifilm's own XF and XC lenses, Car ...
References
External links
Billead.com
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Lens mounts
Fujifilm SLR cameras