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12 unusual facts about FujiFilm


Aozora no Kakera

The title single was used in commercials for the Axia brand of cassette tapes from Fujifilm in Japan.

Digital Linear Tape

Manufacturers of cartridges for the DLT/SDLT market are Fujifilm, Hitachi/Maxell and Imation.

French Society of Cinematographers

(Kodak, Fuji, Laboratories like LTC, post-production company as Duran and, above all the CNC.

Fujifilm Corp. v. Benun

Fujifilm is the owner of patents in the design and production of single-use, disposable cameras, or lens-fitted film packages (LFFPs).

Jazz Photo Corp. v. United States International Trade Commission

A company called Polytech Enterprise Limited acquired used disposable cameras which had been manufactured by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. and sold by Fuji to consumers.

Kingsbrook

The first is the Cambridge Road Industrial Estate which houses many companies including Fujifilm.

Linear Tape-Open

Compliance-Verified licensed manufacturers of LTO technology media are EMTEC, Imation, Fujifilm, Maxell, TDK and Sony.

Nomaï

Many companies including EMTEC, Maxell, Memorex, Letraset, Fujifilm, BASF, Verbatim, and Lexmark sold products manufactured by Nomaï under OEM and distribution agreements.

Persil Service

After the pilot scheme, the Kodak partnership was dropped and Fujifilm filled the gap.

Personalised stamp

Affiliates like Fuji can market, sell and fulfill orders, but are not authorized to approve imagery or print postage and must be associated with an authorized provider who creates the indicia using an approved postage evidencing system.

Utsurun Desu.

roughly means "it infects you" and is a homophone for a disposable camera produced by Fujifilm (where "Utsurun desu" means "it can take photos").

Walter Iooss

In 1982, Iooss was recruited by Fujifilm to work on an extended study of athletes who were working their way to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.


100F

Fujichrome Provia 100F (RDP III), a professional color reversal film by Fujifilm

Fujichrome Velvia 100F (RVP 100F), a highly color-saturated professional color reversal film by Fujifilm

Cinematography Mailing List

The CML has over 3500 members worldwide, including members of the American Society of Cinematographers, the British Society of Cinematographers, the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, etc. as well as representatives from most major equipment manufacturers, including Kodak, Fujifilm, Aaton, Arri, Panavision, Sony, Panasonic, etc.

Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D

In December 2010 via the Russian spacecraft Soyuz 25S, a European Space Agency astronaut brought the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 aboard the International Space Station.

Fujifilm X-mount

These include Fujifilm's 'XF' and 'XC' lens line, bearing Fujifilm's moniker "Fujinon" which is used for optics within the company, and the 'Touit' line from Carl Zeiss AG.

Image sensor format

High-end compact cameras using sensors of nearly twice the area than sensors equipping common compacts include Canon PowerShot G12 (1/1.7") and Powershot S90/S95 (1/1.7"), Ricoh GR Digital IV (1/1.7"), Nikon Coolpix P7100 (1/1.7"), Samsung EX1 (1/1.7"), Panasonic DMC-LX5 (1/1.63") and Olympus XZ-1(1/1.63"). Fujifilm FinePix X-10 has a 2/3" sensor, the largest sensor on camera small enough to be labelled as compact (despite weighing 353 grams) until June 2012.

Price fixing cases

The European Commission has handed out a massive €750 million in fines to Siemens, Alstrom, Areva, Schneider and Japanese firms Fuji, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Japan AE Systems.

S3000

FinePix S3000, a 2003 3.2 megapixel digital camera with a 6x optical zoom lens by Fujifilm

S3500

FinePix S3500, a 2005 digital camera with a 6x optical zoom lens by FujiFilm

Taiyo Yuden

Rebranded Taiyo Yuden media can be found under Fujifilm, Fusion, Maxell (Maxell Music CD-R, Maxell CD-R Pro, and Maxell CD-R Music Pro (discontinued)), Miflop, Panasonic, Plextor, Sony (Sony Music CD-R (discontinued 2008)), TDK, and Verbatim Corporation brands.

Takako Uehara

Takako is also a model endorsing many brands such as Shiseido mainly on Proudia & Tsubaki Shampoo, Dunlop Tyres, NTT DoCoMo, FujiFilm FinePix Camera, SAGAWA, FamilyMart, KC Card, Meiji Chocolate, NEC FOMA and other food & beverages.

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).