When the second-largest producer of film in the world \u2014 which coincidentally is also an impressive multinational chemical and medical corporation \u2014 decides to make lenses, you can bet they will know exactly what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
Fujifilm was established in 1934 as a subsidiary of the Daicel corporation. Daicel was already one of the biggest cellulose and industrial chemistry manufacturers in Japan at the time.<\/p>\n
The result was Fujinon \u2014 a lens brand that combined the chemical knowledge of film sensitivity with optical engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the second-largest producer of film in the world \u2014 which coincidentally is also an impressive multinational chemical and medical corporation \u2014 decides to make lenses, you can bet they will know exactly what they\u2019re doing. Fujifilm was established in 1934 as a subsidiary of the Daicel corporation. Daicel was already one of the biggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[78,80,76,77,79,20],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lens-history","tag-19mm","tag-ebc-coatings","tag-fujifilm","tag-fujinon","tag-japanese-optics","tag-vintage-lenses"],"yoast_head":"\n