News or Gossip About the Release of the Beast

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Originally Posted by Abbazz
There's a write-up on p. 169 of the May '08 issue of Asahi Camera. The new Fuji folder will be put on sale by the end of the year.

Cheers!

Abbazz


Hi Abbazz and everybody else,

It seems to me it will be good if we start tracking in a separate thread news (or gossip = as you wish to see it) about the new prospected folder.

So here I do it.

Cheers,
Ruben
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Hmmmm ... End of the year?

Hmmmm ... End of the year?

counting May and camera ready for market in January, that's 8 months. Now, saving $250 per month.. that should just do it for cash buy in January. Hurrah!!!
 
It may come as a surprise to some of you, but I really am fond of Fujica cameras :rolleyes: , at least from the AZ 1 and older. I first posted favorably on this, at least from the point of view of being open to buying one.

The more I have thought of the probable cost, I have been turned off. I understand there probably won't be so many sold that Fuji can sell at a lower price and expect to make money.

But I just don't see paying that much for a brand. I have enough MF folders now to do me. I even have a couple of Fuji folders (Fuji Six and Fuji Six II) already. I have Welta and Zeiss Ikon. They are alll pretty good producers. If I feel a need for sharper, more modern lenses, I have my Mamiya Super Press 23. For me at least, it just isn't worth it.

For those of you to whom it will be worth it, drive on! I applaud Fuji for being willing to bring this out, and all of you who will buy it as well, for the same reason. I have no doubt you will have a fine camera you will be proud of. I am sure you will get great photos.

I will continue to buy and use film. I may even buy some more MF cameras. But I won't pay that much for one. Just my two cents.
 
tripod said:
Are you interested in one, Ruben?
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I think that if this camera is indeed released it would be a good signal for all film users, and an interesting move with implications in the whole industry.

Yet additional signs may depend on what exactly the features of this camera will be.

Hence my first and foremost interest. Be it clear that for money sparing reasons I shoot MF in the 6 x 45 version, and not square, as I think it should be.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
In this case beauty or beast should, in my opinion, be adopted according to the overall size of the camera. Isn't it going to be a 6 x 9 ?
 
For sure, with all that new full frame Foveon and CMOS 24MP digital stuff coming around within the next months, 6x9 film folders will be a very hot sale in the next future.

I think I'm going to quickly get tons of NOS items from Certo and Welta, so that I can sell them with huge profit when the hysteria shows up...

:p

More seriously : I have a Rolleiflex 3.5F which I got for free (traded it for a Nikon MD-12 motordrive, yes ma'am) long ago. Plus a nice working Ikonta with a coated Tessar 75/3.5. That's it for my MF stuff (enough for me). So, the Fuji... nope I'm afraid.

It's a collector item, marketed as another example of these fashionable "limited edition" upper-class toys which will be stored at the bank with the family jewels and never put at use IMO. Not a world-mass actual camera.

Howzabout getting a nice working Moskva, to just have fun at shooting 6x9 ? Would sound like a way better option for me, if I was in the market for a 6x9 folder.
 
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The Beast part reminds me of a classic book by Giordano Bruno, "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast"
a book so good they'll burn you at the stake for writing it.
 
I just joined because of this camera. I will probably be checking this thread every day until it is released (assuming it is indeed released.)
I currently use a Mamiya 7II /65mm lens. I try to keep it with me mostly all the time, but it doesn't always happen. For those times that it doesn't, this new Fuji most likely will be with me-- if I can afford it.

Scott
 
I have a Fuji APS (cringe) point and shoot which preceded the digital age and still produces amazingly sharp photos for travel etc. So I'm convinced about the lens. However, over recent years I've brought out my original Perkeo I, my father's Bessa I, (both with the Vaskar 4.5 lens) bought a Perkeo II and a Bessa I each with the 3.5 Color Skopar lens, and a Yashicamat 124G, so I guess I'm well enough covered for 6x6 and 6x9.
 
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