The
Fujica 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 body allows interchangeable lenses, most usually the rangefinder camera, singl ...
created by
Fujifilm 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
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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 sourc ...
of 43.5 mm.
[AX-1 owner's manual]
With the advent of
autofocus, the Fujica series of
35 mm 35 mm may refer to:
* 135 film, a type of still photography format commonly referred to as 35 mm film
* 35 mm movie film, a type of motion picture film stock
* 35MM 35 mm may refer to:
* 135 film, a type of still photography format ...
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 cameras starting with the
FinePix S1 Pro
The Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro was an interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera introduced in January 2000. It was based on a Nikon F60 (Nikon N60 in the U.S.) film camera body that was modified by Fujifilm to include its own propriet ...
, but these were based on
Nikon designs and used the autofocus version of the
Nikon F-mount.
Fujifilm introduced a line of twenty X-
Fujinon lenses with this mount (as well as some 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 55mm 1:1.6 DMX-Fujinon 55mm 1:1.6 DMEBC X-Fujinon Z 70-140mm 1:4-4.5 DM
and th
EBC X-Fujinon Z 35-70mm 1:2.8-3.7 DM
The Fujinar lenses are
X-Fujinar W 28mm 1:2.8 DMX-Fujinar T 135mm 1:2.8 DM
and th
X-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
References
External links
Billead.com
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Lens mounts
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