KenM
9-Feb-2004, 21:30
I just picked up a Fujinon T-400mm lens. Serial number is 693434. The lens was purchased used, but looks brand new - there isn't a mark on it, anywhere.
Where I'm a bit confused is on the shutter. All of my lenses are modern, with most of them purchased new. They all have new copal shutters in them, where the aperature adjustment is controlled by a small plastic triangular knob on the 'top' of the lens, behind the shutter winder arm.
This lens has the aperature adjustment knob on the bottom of the lens, and it's made of the same material as the shutter winder knob. The speed ring is plastic, with coarse 'treads'. The shutter is all black.
A friend has a much older version of the same lens - he's had it for 15 years or so (I think). His shutter has a metal speed ring, but has the same bottom-mounted aperature adjustment knob.
I've checked out Kerry T's website, and he states that serial numbers for Fujinon lenses are all over the map, with no logical sequencing, so it's pretty difficult to determine age from serial numbers.
Anyone have any idea how old this lens is? From looking at the images on Badger Graphic's website, almost all the Fuji lenses seem to be using the same Copal shutter as the one on my 400mm. Are these 'special' Copal shutters made for Fuji? BTW, the image shown on Badger's website is exactly what I have in front of me.
Comments?
Where I'm a bit confused is on the shutter. All of my lenses are modern, with most of them purchased new. They all have new copal shutters in them, where the aperature adjustment is controlled by a small plastic triangular knob on the 'top' of the lens, behind the shutter winder arm.
This lens has the aperature adjustment knob on the bottom of the lens, and it's made of the same material as the shutter winder knob. The speed ring is plastic, with coarse 'treads'. The shutter is all black.
A friend has a much older version of the same lens - he's had it for 15 years or so (I think). His shutter has a metal speed ring, but has the same bottom-mounted aperature adjustment knob.
I've checked out Kerry T's website, and he states that serial numbers for Fujinon lenses are all over the map, with no logical sequencing, so it's pretty difficult to determine age from serial numbers.
Anyone have any idea how old this lens is? From looking at the images on Badger Graphic's website, almost all the Fuji lenses seem to be using the same Copal shutter as the one on my 400mm. Are these 'special' Copal shutters made for Fuji? BTW, the image shown on Badger's website is exactly what I have in front of me.
Comments?