FujiFilm Fuji FZ-2000 Zoom 35mm Camera (serial 21112237)(Fuji Fz 2000 Zoom 35mm Camera Serial 21112237)

The Fuji FZ-2000 Zoom (aka Discovery 2000) was the company top-of-the-line 35mm point-and-shoot in the late 1980s. It’s an outstanding and quite unusual camera. If you don’t mind a relatively large 35mm point-and-shoot, the FZ-2000 Zoom is, in our view, an overlooked gem.

Here’s how Fuji described it their 1989 literature:

“Introducing the first camera with the body of a compact and the mind of an SLR.
Press a summary. The lens extends trom 40mm to 105mm.
Press another summary.You are free to take a multiple exposure.
Keep pressing. Every summary gets the mechanics out of the way of your creativity; multiple flash modes compensate for any conceivable lighting situation. An optional flash stretches the range up to 40 feet.
Just a finger tip’s pressure is all it takes tor macro mode. Exposure override. A continuous shooting option. No camera has ever been so loaded. Yet felt so light.”

Battery info

This camera is powered two CR123 battery (available as an option).

Condition notes

The camera is in very good functional and aesthetic condition (see photos). It was tested with batteries and film installed and all functions are working correctly. Its focus and exposure accuracy are excellent.

Example photos

https://www.lomography.com/cameras/3343573-fuji-fz-2000-zoom/photos

Manual

https://www.cameramanuals.org/fuji_pdf/fuji_fz-2000_zoom.pdf

Specifications

• Film: 135 DX roll film.
• Picture Size: 24 × 36 mm.
• Lens: Fujinon Zoom Lens, f = 40—105 mm, 9 components, 9 elements, power zoom.
• Finder: Real image z00m finder, 0.42-1.0X magni-fication, 83% field of view (3 m), parallax correction marks, auto-focus spot, flash ready lamp (red) and auto-focus lamp (green) located near the finder eyepiece.
  Focusing: Active type autofocusing, 1.3 m —o focusing range, 0.8—1.3 m macro-mode range, focus memory, landscape summary (sets lens for taking distant shots and turns off the flash), auto-focus lamp (lights up when the subject is within focusing range and blinks when the subject is beyond focusing range in macrophotography).
• Shutter: Programmed electronic shutter (1/4 ~ 1/250 sec.).
• Exposure Control: Automatic, EV 9.3—16 (normal) and EV 12.7—16 (telephoto) coupling ranges with ISO 100 film [EV 5.7-16 (normal) and EV 8.5—16 (telephoto) in 
  flash off mode], plus or minus 1.5 EV exposure compensation.
• Film Speed Setting: Automatic with ISO 50—1600 DX films.
• Film Threading: Automatic (film advances into position for the first shot when the camera back is closed).
• Film Advance: Automatic (motorized).
• Film Rewinding: Automatic (motorized auto-return when the end of film is reached), provision for mid-roll re-winding.
• LCD (Liquid crystal Display): Exposure counter (additive), film winding indica-tor, cartridge loaded indicator, battery checker, shooting mode indicator (self-timer, rapid sequence, and multiple exposure modes), flash mode indicator (automatic flash, fill-in flash, and slow-shutter-speed flash modes), exposure compensation indicator (+ 1.5 and – 1.5 stops).
• Built-in Flash: Interlocked with zooming operation, switchable to automatic flash, fill-in flash, slow-shutter-speed flash, and flash off modes, electronically controlled flashmatic exposure, about 3-sec. recycle time, flash ready lamp (when the shutter release is pressed halfway down, it lights up if the flash is ready for firing and blinks if it is still charging).
• Special Provisions: Provision for rapid-sequence exposure (at 1.3 second intervals) and multiple exposure.
• Self-timer: Electronically controlled, about 10 seconds delay, can be stopped in mid-run, Self-timer “on” indicator lamp.
• Battery: Two lithium batteries (Panasonic CR123A).
• Others: Built-in lens cover (closing the lens cover also locks the shutter release), tripod socket.
• Dimensions & Weight: 149 × 83 x 80 mm, 510 g (without batteries).