JChrome
Street Worker
I believe, as Sevo mentioned, I was a bit presumptuous. I also messaged some folks who CLA the shutter and they mentioned that there is a spring mechanism and the shutter fires independent from the body.
Here's some good close ups of the shutter, outside of the lens body.
Dante_Stella
Rex canum cattorumque
Jchrome - could it just be a booster to make sure that the shutter linkage trips the shutter?
JChrome
Street Worker
That's possible.
I've been over it in my head. I believe Fuji wanted just one interface for winding and tripping the shutter (as opposed to two separate ones like in the BL bodies). Companies are motivated to reduce the amount of parts in their cameras, and this is probably the driving factor.
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Corran
Well-known
Well, that's the problem. The Fuji 50mm is priced stratospherically considering the alternatives. Why? I am guessing simply scarcity? I've never investigated the number of lenses made.
The point though, is I would certainly utilize the Fuji 6x9 system more if the lens options weren't priced so dearly. Personally, the Fuji 6x9 was a bargain camera I picked up to try out. I didn't know the wide lenses were so expensive when I got the camera (and a standard lens, of course). Hence it's been used infrequently, but it makes a good candid camera (I just tend to shoot more landscapes and such). I might sell it.
Spanik
Well-known
That's quite normal. The futher you go back, the less wides there are. If I look at my Korelle, a 80mm is the widest there is (for a 6x6).
Corran
Well-known
True enough, at least for MF. I'm spoiled with my 4x5 lenses, of which a 90mm is my most frequently used, equivalent to roughly a 50mm on 6x9 - and a focal length that has been available for 100 years.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
I don't know whether they actually ever merged some of their shutter activities like their German counterparts making Compur and Prontor shutters (Nidec now owns both Copal and some formerly Seiko/Epson divisions, but that is a fairly recent development), but they doubtlessly standardized their mechanical #0 and #2 shutters - these were plug-in compatible for much of the seventies to nineties, and Fuji in particular mixed between them across batches.
JChrome
Street Worker
You're correct about the shutter. I had a vendor in Japan take a video of the shutter firing outside of the lens body.
No audio, but it shows winding and firing.
https://youtu.be/G30APOxT7Fs
No audio, but it shows winding and firing.
https://youtu.be/G30APOxT7Fs