We get a lot of love for our Fujinon XF lenses and it’s hardly a surprise; we’ve been making them for a long time! We’ve created a short series of videos to help you understand the history of Fujinon and the heritage of our XF lenses,
Episode 1 – The history of FUJINON
Shigamitsu Mort, Ex-President of the Fujifilm Optics Mito factory, talks about our lens polishing technology across our wide range of lenses and describes the long time spent designing and perfecting the Fujinon-Z 43-75mm f/3.5-4.5.
Kazunori Oono, Ex-Senior Manager of the Optical Device Division talks about the testing and evaluation that went into the EBC X-Fujifilm 50mm f/1.2 back in 1979
Episode 2 – Professional vs Professional
Takashi Suzuki, Optical Design Division Senior Manager talks about how Fujifilm, professionals in the photography field, responded to professional photographer’s requirements to launch the GX680 Professional large format system in 1986. The lenses for the system had to be high enough in resolution in order to maximise the benefit of large format film.
Takao Araki, Optical Design Division Software Manager talks about Fujifilm’s amazing and unique approach to improve the calculation process that goes into each lens design. In 1956, they built one of Japan’s very first computers!
Episode 3 – The heritage of XF lenses
Taiga Noda and Hiroki Saito, both of the Optical Design Division in Tokyo talk about how without the heritage of Fujinon, many of the new XF lenses would not have been possible.
The result? The craftsmanship of FUJINON
See all of the steps that go into making each and every hand-made XF lens in our factory in Japan.
Great Videos! Proud to own two fuji cameras and lenses. Love the Japanese culture and their strict and proud customs which shows in all they make
Thanks to the quality I get from my 2 Fujifilm cameras, the X-Pro1 and X100s, I can leave my heavy DSLRs at home when traveling or doing street photography. The only limitation is from the skills of the photographer, not the equipment. My abilities will never outstrip the capabilities of my Fujifilm equipment.
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Great movies! I’m a proud owner of the xf 14, xf 23 and the brilliant 56mm APD. I-love-these-lenses! I call them the holy trinity and there is something special about them which I only can describe as a certain “spirit”. Maybe I exaggerate quite a bit, but Fuji has changed the way I perceive the world around me.