Since the late 1970s, my Fujica ZC1000N has been my faithful companion, steadfast and precise , through every stage of my life, both personal and professional. Few machines have shared so much of my time, my travels, and my light as this magnificent camera, a masterpiece of Japanese engineering that continues to operate today as if it had just left the factory floor.
Back in the mid-1980s, when Fujifilm Spain stopped selling ZC1000 accessories, I was lucky enough to purchase the entire range — at a very reasonable price. I confess that some of those accessories went straight into storage; I bought them not for immediate use, but because I somehow knew that, one day, they would prove indispensable.
Well, that day arrived… forty years later.
One of those forgotten treasures was the extra eyesight adjustment lens, designed to fine-tune the camera’s diopter range.
The standard viewfinder on the ZC1000N already offers built-in diopter adjustment from –4 to +2, which had always been perfectly adequate for me... until recently.
A routine visit to the ophthalmologist, however, revealed a small but crucial change in my eyesight. Normally, that would have meant trouble: with most motion-picture cameras, such variations are a headache (literally). But not with the ZC1000N.
I simply took the small threaded adapter marked “+2 Diopter”, screwed it gently onto the eyepiece… and voilà! Through the viewfinder, I can now see as clearly as I did when I was 18.
The focus snaps instantly, the grain is razor-sharp, and the frame lines glow with that perfect precision that only an optical reflex system can deliver.
Once again, Fujica proves what I’ve always said: the ZC1000N was built not only to last, but to grow old gracefully with its owner — adapting, decade after decade, to every change life brings.
In a world obsessed with obsolescence, this camera, designed by my friend the great Shigeo Mizukawa, remains timeless… and, thanks to that little diopter lens, so do I.
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