Fujica Zooms

[themoleman342]

I thought this pair was fairly interesting. These are two 'framing' zooms designed for the Fujica AZ-1. They are both without the EBC coating, but are from that era. They offer open aperture metering on several specific fujica models. From what I've read the 43-75mm was one of the first consumer marketed zooms ever (as the az-1 was considered the budget/non-pro version of the st901). I'm not exactly sure where the 29-47mm falls into that story. It is rather uncommon. Not many people own it and I have yet to use it. The performance of both are more than likely comparatively poor to a typical fixed focal length and the f3.5 is limiting, but it is fun to own them nonetheless.




~Marc

[martinsmith99]

I've a 75-150 Zoom in this line and it's very good. It's slow at F4.5, but sharp wide open with much better than average IQ.