THE MAKING OF THE FUJIFILM GFX 100

“It takes 200 minutes to screw together a GFX 100, with a myriad of tests performed at various stages during the process.”

Over the next couple of months somebody somewhere is going to buy a Fujinon GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR zoom that contains a very special lens element. It was cleaned personally by yours truly, and passed the critical inspection that would enable it to proceed to the production line. OK, so it may have just been a demo element, but I’d like to think it’s now installed in a 100-200mm zoom that’s being used by the owner of a GFX camera body somewhere in the world.

We were at Fujifilm’s Taiwa factory, just outside the city of Sendai in the north-east of Japan and about two hours from Tokyo on the or ‘bullet