Fujica


Fujica is the name given by Fujifilm of Japan to its line of still-photography and motion picture cameras.

History

The company was founded on January 20, 1934 as Fuji Shashin Film K.K., producing several sorts of film. It was an offshoot of Dai-Nippon Celluloid K.K., founded in 1919. The company's first CEO was Asano Shūichi. The plants were located in the village of Minami-Ashigara in the prefecture of Kanagawa, at the foot of Mt. Hakone. It is said that the name "Fuji" was chosen by Asano Shūichi because of Mt. Fuji, situated not far from Mt. Hakone, but was already registered by a third party, to which the rights were bought for ¥8,000, an important sum at the time.
The company started to produce optical glass during the early 1940s for military use. The dependent company Fuji Shashin Kōki K.K. was founded in 1944, from the assets of Enomoto Kōgaku Seiki Seisakusho, but this was absorbed back into Fuji Shashin Film after 1945.Many other Fuji companies were created after the war, all of them dependent of the main Fuji Shashin Film company and eventually of the Fujifilm Group. Fuji began producing cameras in 1948 with the Fujica Six. Until the late 1970s, many cameras made by Fuji were called Fujica, a contraction of Fuji and camera.
The company started producing digital cameras in 1988. Fujifilm was the most agile among film makers in adapting to digital imaging. Today it offers leading technology in smaller digital consumer cameras with high-sensitivity CCDs ; it also sells DSLRs.

Camera models

Here is a list of all the Fujica branded still photo cameras that were produced and their date of introduction. Single-8 Film cameras are not listed.

Interchangeable lenses for 35mm cameras