Fuji - Bessa III

[rolleistef]

It seems that the new Fuji folder will be made along with Cosina, with both a "Bessa III" and a Fuji version. Marketed come summer... I think I like it!!

http://www.1854.eu/2008/09/live_from_photokina_fujis_medi.html

 

[rolleistef]

and it comes also with an autofocus!

 

[Solinar]

There are three other threads on the Fuji/Voigtlander 6 by 7 folder.

One look at the BJP photos and I can tell you that the camera under glass is a mock up without a working leaf-shutter. In fact, it looks like they put a disc where the shutter blades would normally be located.

I expect the production model will have an electronically controlled leaf-shutter similar to the Plaubel Makina 67.

 

[Solinar]

... and it comes with an autofocus !!!

Did you mean to say an auto exposure mode? 🙂

I can clearly see a manual focus ring in one of the photos.

 

[ray*j*gun]

Yes the detail in the BJP write up said it would come with auto focus.

Wow......

Ray

 

[Solinar]

Bet ya dollars to donuts that BJP got the autofocus part wrong. Does anyone see a space for a piezo electric motor on the lens?

 

[Solinar]

.... and what are the chances that this journalist has used a RF folder as part as his regular repertoire in the past five or ten years?

 

[David Goldfarb]

Yes that's just a mistake or a typo. An SPD sensor is for the light meter. It's aperture priority auto exposure.