Fuji sp 3000 resolution
Price around $1849 USD in 1999 according to a photo magazine ad from a discount dealer. Manufactured by Fuji Photo Film Co., LTD., Tokyo, Japan. The Fuji GA645Zi is pretty cool and has a lot of neat features, especially the zoom lens (how many medium format cameras have a fixed zoom? not many I’d guess) So does this zoom have the qualities of a prime, or is it just another typical zoom, with fuzzy sides and low contrast on the long end? Let’s find out now!
FUJI SP 3000 RESOLUTION SERIES
Even though the Fuji GA series are clearly bigger than 35mm cameras, you’ll notice the larger (2.7x) negatives right off, and you can have the camera imprint the shooting data below the film margins so you don’t have to write any of your settings down for future use. Obviously, it’s a slow zoom, with a particularly narrow range and you only get four zoom steps, or positions to choose from 55mm, 65mm, 75mm and 90mm.Īs I’ve said in the other Fuji GA reviews, people looking to step up to medium format from an automated 35mm camera like the Nikon 35Ti will love the simplicities of the Fuji GA645 models, they all function in a similar fashion, auto exposure, auto focus, automatic loading, advance and rewind. It has an equivalence in 135 format of approximately 34-56mm. The Fuji GA645Zi lens is a ten element in ten group design with a 1.6x zoom range of 55-90mm, F/4.5-6.9.
FUJI SP 3000 RESOLUTION PROFESSIONAL
The new features were apparently pretty expensive a February 1999 big mail-order house advertisement in Popular Photography magazine listed the price as $1849, which may have been discounted too! I’m guessing the Fuji GA645Zi was purchased mostly by rich amateurs rather than by professional photographers because of the limiting aspects of the slow zoom lens. The’Zi’ introduced a few handy features other than the zoom lens, like an adjustable viewfinder diopter (great for people with less than perfect eyesight), a lens cap warning signal, (no more blank frames!), a more ergonomic placement of the shutter button, a revamped top plate, and a quieter focusing motor.
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There were two others, the first had a 60mm, lens, the second model a wide angle 45mm, both reviewed here. The Fuji GA645Zi ‘Professional’ was the last, and most sophisticated model from Fuji’s ‘GA…’ medium format line. Nothing says ‘1990s’ better than a ‘Champagne’ colored electronics product, especially an expensive camera.