Fujinon 300mm f4.5

[xkaes]

Has anyone ever seen a Fujinon 300mm f4.5 lens? Not a Fujinar. Not an f5.6. A Fujinon 300mm f4.5. It's in the Fuji literature, so I assume it was produced, but it seems as odd as the 1200mm A f24.

[ic-racer]

This one?

[Dan Fromm]

This one?

Are you sure this is an LF lens?

[xkaes]

UHHHH, this one:

[Drew Wiley]

From the chart, apparently they too had a line of process tessars, which they tried to cross-market for regular photo applications. Quite a find! A list with a Dodo bird, a moa, and an Ivory Billed Woodpecker on it, none of which anyone has seen alive. Or has someone?

[ic-racer]

Are you sure this is an LF lens?

It is a Hassy lens, but it is the only Fujinon 300mm f4.5 I have seen.

[Drew Wiley]

If they weren't intended for LF or copy work, then they wouldn't have published the image circles, suitable even up to 8X10 format in the case of the 300. But graphics lenses are typically f/9. What were they thinking? They already had 4.5 Fujinar tessars in shutter, which still turn up for sale. But perhaps the ones on this list are better corrected and more expensive, yet they claim "easily owned". I wonder how many of these ever got into production, and if they were mainly sole for to other brands like Hassie. And I wonder when - the list itself looks 70's-ish.

[ic-racer]

UHHHH, this one:

Indeed looks like exactly like a re-branded Fujinar 300 4.5

[xkaes]

What were they thinking? They already had 4.5 Fujinar tessars in shutter, which still turn up for sale.

Fuji did sell a Fujinar 300mm f4.5, but only available as a barrel lens -- without a shutter. Only the 150mm to 250mm Fujinars were available with shutters -- as far as I know.

[aphcl84]

Indeed looks like a re-branded Fujinar 300 4.5

Quite the opposite, these were older brass cell Tessar designs that were very common as a workhorse lens in Japan. They were sold either in barrel as shown and could be front mounted to a Shanel 5A shutter, or were mounted individually into Shanel 5B shutters at increased cost and weight, though I don't remember if the 300mm could fit into the 5B. I have one of the 250mm Fujinons mounted in a 5B shutter. The Fujinar lenses were made later from the same optical design, rehoused in Aluminium cells to fit Copal 3S shutters from 180-250mm, while the Fujinar 300mm continued as a barrel lens.