Fujinon -A 600 mm f/11 coverage

[luca_3797]

I 've just bought a Fujinon - A 600 mm f/11.5 mm.It's a single coated lens (inner lettering) but still I don't know if it covers the format 11x14.... Thanks for any reply...

[Gem Singer]

Hi Luca,

The Fujinon 600 f11 A has an image circle of 840mm. It should easily cover the 11X14 format, with ample movements. See: http://members.aol.com/subgallery/index.htm

[Ted Harris]

It's an awful lens, a real dog. I am so sorry you wasted yoru money. Since I am a nice guy I will be happy to take it off your hands for whatever you paid for it!

[luca_3797]

Ted, are you kidding? It's a single coated lens but it 's an apocrhomatic one!! ... like the old tale "Snowwhite and the seven dwarfs"...they were really Dwarfs but they were 7!

[Dan Fromm]

Luca, just give Ted the lens and stop worrying.

Cheers,

Dan

[carterwj]

I 've just bought a Fujinon - A 600 mm f/11.5 mm.It's a single coated lens (inner lettering) but still I don't know if it covers the format 11x14.... Thanks for any reply...

Hello. Your lens does indeed cover 11x14 with quite a bit of room to spare. I recently purchased a Fujinon - C 600mm. A much lighter lens. If you like I can trade you my lens for your terribly heavy lens. I hate to think of you straining your back.

[xkaes]

This was a special order lens so it is very hard to find and very expensive. You will need a lot of extension to use this puppy -- if you can find one. It has an 840mm image circle.

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[xkaes]

If you want to give it to anyone, make it the Smithsonian.

[Sal Santamaura]

If you want to give it to anyone, make it the Smithsonian.

This thread is more than 18 years old. The OP last visited this site in 2006. I suspect your suggestion will not be heard. :)

[Drew Wiley]

During that interval, everyone has been running around trying to discover a Fuji A 1200mm to talk about - even rarer.

[Greg]

A few years ago I acquired a "like new" 600mm f/11.5 KangRinpoche (I think that we can all agree that it was a clone of the FUJINON) lens in a Copal 3 for my 11x14. Cost was easily a third of the cost of a used 600mm FUJINON. I have yet to have it run out of coverage on my 11x14, no matter how extreme my movements are. Sharpness is all that I could ever want. I also have yet, and most probably never will, to have someone come along and comment that the optic is not the classic 600mm FUJINON.

[Drew Wiley]

That is not a clone of the Fuji A 600 at all, Greg, but of the 4-element 600 Fuji C version. "C" stands for "Compact". "A" stands for "Another critter entirely", and a pretty rare darn big one at that, in this case. A's are even better corrected, although the 600 and 1200 A's were only made in the earlier single-coated generation of that series, probably before any C's existed.

[xkaes]

...the 600 and 1200 A's were only made in the earlier single-coated generation of that series, probably before any C's existed.

That's right. All the C's were EBC coated. Only the later A's got that treatment. Both the C's and A's are great, but the A's are designed for close-up work and have much larger image circle -- go figure. The C 600mm has an IC of 620mm which is MUCH smaller than the A 600mm -- 840mm. Both will cover 16x20".

[Drew Wiley]

Yep. A's are what Fuji called "super plasmats". Bigger image circle, better tangential axis performance, closer to true apochromatic, and distinctly better very close up. I shoot with both A's and C's, but nothing larger than 8X10 format. I have 450 and 600 C's, and 180, 240, and 360 A's, but have never even seen a 600 or 1200 A except in web fashion.

[xkaes]

Here's the 1200mm A -- NOT mine -- on an extension cone, of course.

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It weighed five pounds, was a special order, very expensive, and of course, very few were made. Check out the serial # on this one:

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Maybe Fuji was just trying to prove it could play with the big boys!?!?!?

[Drew Wiley]

5 lb lens on a long tophat board - wow! With that amount of leverage tugging at the front end, I wonder how the tilt knobs were tightened - using a torque wrench and cheater bar?

[carterwj]

During that interval, everyone has been running around trying to discover a Fuji A 1200mm to talk about - even rarer.

I have been looking for the Fujinon-A 1200mm for a while. I don't think I will ever find it.

[xkaes]

I dream of Genie.

[carterwj]

I dream of Genie.

I take it you are referring to a girl.

[carterwj]

This was a special order lens so it is very hard to find and very expensive. You will need a lot of extension to use this puppy -- if you can find one. It has an 840mm image circle.

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I actually just managed to purchase a Fujinon-A 600mm from a vendor in Japan earlier this year. I had been looking at it on an auction site for years. I bothered him from time to time with questions and best offers. In the end I bought it, but it was not cheap. I would love to get a 1200mm version also, but I will not hold my breath.