A panorama of Fujica.
The 3 variants of the Fujifilm Fujica ST701 35mm SLR camera.
The middle unit is the early 1970 model with the optional cold shoe for accessories, held in place by the diopter lens of the viewfinder. Lens is an original series I fujinon ST without aperture tab and silver aperture ring. On the left and right, the later model, in silver and in black. All 3 can do 1/1000s exposure time.
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The solution? Fuji introduced the following year a lens with the same all metal construction and same optical recipe, but with a black aperture ring instead of silver. Both 49.5mm high, both with a 49mm filter mount. Both weigh 187.5g without caps. A Fujica 50/55mm all metal hood adds 20g. This was still before the automatic open aperture metering version of this lens that would be made available for the ST801. The ST701 is stopped down aperture.
The original 1971 version of the Fujifilm Fujica ST Fujinon f1.8 55 mm “standard” lens was excellent, even without the electron beam coating that Fuji would later introduce. While the ST601 camera was only available in chrome silver finish, the 701 (and later 801 and 901 cameras) was also available in black, for an extra.
As such, there was now a demand for all black lenses…
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Francois Dion