The Fujica

Fujica

Fujica is the name given by Fujifilm of Japan to its line of still-photography and motion picture cameras.Here is a list of all the Fujica branded still photo cameras that were produced and their date of introduction...

 X mount was a lens mount

Lens mount

A lens mount is an interface — mechanical and often also electrical — between a photographic camera body and a lens. It is confined to cameras where the body allows interchangeable lenses, most usually the single lens reflex type or any movie camera of 16 mm or higher gauge...

 created by Fujifilm

Fujifilm

is a multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.Fujifilm's principal activities are the development, production, sale and servicing of color photographic film, digital cameras, photofinishing equipment, color paper, photofinishing chemicals, medical imaging...

 in the late 1970s for the new Fujica SLR

Single-lens reflex camera

A single-lens reflex camera is a camera that typically uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system that permits the photographer to see exactly what will be captured by the film or digital imaging system, as opposed to pre-SLR cameras where the view through the viewfinder could be significantly...

 lineup : AX-1, AX3, AX-5, STX-1, STX-1N, STX-2. It replaced the old M42

M42

M42 or M-42 may refer to:In science:* Messier 42, a nebula also called the Orion Nebula* the 42nd known Mersenne primeIn transportation:* M-42 , a state highway in Michigan...

 screw mount used on their earlier SLRs.

The mount is a bayonet

Bayonet mount

A bayonet mount or bayonet connector is a fastening mechanism consisting of a male side with one or more pins, and a female receptor with matching L slots and spring to keep the two parts locked together....

 type, with a 65° clockwise lock, and a flange focal distance

Flange focal distance

For an interchangeable lens camera, the flange focal distance of a lens mount system is the distance from the mounting flange to the...

 of 43.5 mm.

With the advent of autofocus

Autofocus

An autofocus optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus fully automatic or on a manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system has to be done manually until indication...

, the Fujica series of 35 mm

35 mm film

35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for chemical still photography and motion pictures. The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 35 millimeters in width...

 SLR cameras was discontinued in 1985, rendering this mount obsolete. Fuji would return to the SLR market in 2000 with a series of digital SLR

Digital single-lens reflex camera

Most digital single-lens reflex cameras are digital cameras that use a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera....

 cameras starting with the FinePix S1 Pro

FinePix S1 Pro

The Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro was an interchangeable lens digital single-lens reflex camera introduced in January 2000. It was based on a Nikon F60 film camera body that was modified by Fujifilm to include its own proprietary image sensor and electronics. Because of the Nikon body, it had a Nikon F...

, but these were based on Nikon

Nikon

, also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...

 designs and used the autofocus version of the Nikon F-mount

Nikon F-mount

The Nikon F-mount is a type of interchangeable lens mount developed by Nikon for its 35 mm SLR cameras. The F-mount was first introduced on the Nikon F camera in 1959, and features a three lug bayonet mount with a 44 mm throat and a flange to focal plane distance of 46.5 mm...

.

Fujifilm introduced a full line of twenty X-Fujinon

Fujinon

Fujinon is a division of Fujifilm that specialises in the production of optical lenses for photographic, medical, video, and television use.- Fujinon SWD :...

lenses in this new mount (as well as some Fujinar lenses, not described here) :


The "no-DM" lens can't be used for program and shutter priority exposure modes of AX-3, AX5 SLR ; aperture priority and manual mode will work.

An example of X-Fujinon lens, the 16mm fish-eye:

There were some accessories that complied with Fujica X mount :

- The "mount adapter X-S" for M42 lenses.

- Two extension tubes : X25 (25mm) and X50 (50mm).

- The "auto bellows X" used with a 50mm lens can provide 1 to 3x magnification. It can also be used with the "focusing rail X". The Fujica "slide copier X" mounted on the "focusing rail X" simplifies the copying of 135 film pictures.

- The "macro cine copy X" is a macro lens with specific windows to take copies from 8mm and 16mm films.

- The "microscope adapter X" to adapt the camera body to a microscope.

- A "reverse adapter X", that can be mounted with an extension tube.

- A classic "teleconverter 2X".