Fuji Medium Format Film Cameras- lens conversions

[Jonathan]

Hi folks,

 

I know this is predominantly for digital 'X' users, but a thought occurred to me that with the recent release of a brace of lens conversions for the x100 series Fuji could, technically at least, market a similar lens conversion system for the magnificent Fuji GF670 series of film cameras.

 

Would there be any appetite, or any reason why a 50mm equivalent conversion lens could not be made?

 

Cheers,

 

 

Jonathan

[Noel]

Perfectly possible but not much customer base and those who do still use this camera would be worried about image quality. If you are forked out for the quality of a GF670 and are still using it, you need the best image quality possible. Unlikely that anyone would trust a convertor even if Fuji could make a perfect one.

[Jonathan]

Perfectly possible but not much customer base and those who do still use this camera would be worried about image quality. If you are forked out for the quality of a GF670 and are still using it, you need the best image quality possible. Unlikely that anyone would trust a convertor even if Fuji could make a perfect one.

Ah, good point, the MF negative size would maybe be more demanding than that of aps-c-sized camera sensors and make building a lens converter that much more difficult (and expemsive).

 

Cheers,

 

Jonathan

[MaGCoL]

I do like the idea of lens conversion for the GF670, but like you said I would be concerned about the image quality dropping. I do love the huge high quality negs from mine.

 

On another note, nice to see some fellow film shooters on this forum!