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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 of optical glass in its Odawara Factory in Japan in 1940, which was the start of the Fujinon brand. They were proud of their use of expensive Platinum crucibles to get the purest glass achievable at the time. Fujifilm also pioneered Electron Beam Coating (EBC) which according to Fujifilm, represented a new high in lens precision and performance. The EBC process was significantly different from other coating processes by the number of coating, the thinness of the coating, and the materials used for coating. Fujifilm claimed they were able to have as much as 14 layers of coating and used materials such as zirconium oxide, and cerium fluoride, which could not be used for coating in the conventional coating process. [1] The first lens to offer the Electron Beam Coating was the EBC Fujinon 55mm F3.5 Macro in 1972. Light transmission for the coating was said to be 99.8%. EBC later evolved into Super-EBC and HT-EBC (High Transmittance-Electron Beam Coating).

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35mm format lenses

Fujinon HK5.3X75 35mm PL mount zoom lens, focal length 75-400 mm. Fujinon HK5.3x75.jpg
Fujinon HK5.3X75 35mm PL mount zoom lens, focal length 75-400 mm.

Fujinon M42 screw mount

Lenses for the digital Fujifilm X system

Fujinon XF Prime

Fujinon XF Zoom

Fujinon XC Prime & Zoom

Fujinon MKX cinema lenses

Lenses for the digital medium format Fujifilm GFX system

Lenses equipped with the Fujifilm G-mount

Fujinon GF Prime

Fujinon Tilt/Shift

Fujinon GF Zoom

Large format lenses

Fujinon SWD is the wide-angle Fujinon line. These lenses are 8 elements in 6 groups, and have an angle of view of 105°.

Fujinon SW is a 6-element, 6-group line, with an angle of view of 100°.

Fujinon-W

Fujinon CM-W

Fujinon A lenses are 6 elements in 4 groups, and have an angle of view of 70°. Some of them are multicoated with Fuji's multicoating, EBC (Electron Beam Coating).

Fujinon C is a line of 4-element, 4-group compact lenses.

Fujinon-L

Fujinon T is a 5-element, 5-group line of telephoto designs.

Fujinon T EBC for 35mm

Soft Focus is a line of 3-element, 3-group soft focus lenses.

Medium format lenses

Fujinon GX (M) are lenses for the Fuji GX680 series of cameras.

Fujinon lenses for the Fuji GX617 camera

Enlarging lenses

Fujinar-E

Fujinon-ES is a 4-element line, using a Tessar design.

Fujinon-EP are high-quality enlarging lenses with 6 elements in 4 groups

Fujinon-EX Some consist of 6 elements in 4 groups, some are 6 elements is 6 groups (Fuji's brochure advertised theme this way: "Because our air-spaced element design increases the number of air-to-glass surfaces, thereby increasing corner sharpness and image quality over cemented element designs".) All with Fuji's EBC multicoating (Electron Beam Coating)

C-Mount lenses

"Fujinon-TV" CCTV Lenses: Manual Fixed for 1" sensors Fuji GX617 [5]

Monoculars and Binoculars


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References

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  2. Fujifilm.com. "Fujinon GF30mm F5.6 T/S lens" . Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  3. Fujifilm.com. "Fujinon GF110mm F5.6 T/S Macro lens" . Retrieved 2023-10-29.
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