Equipped for Performance - From Man-made Satellites to Mobile Phones

FUJINON lenses shine in a variety of image contexts such as sports broadcasts including the Olympics and program production. With the advanced performance and quality of high-powered zoom lenses and hi-vision lenses with high image quality, we are proud to hold approximately half of the market share in television lenses for broadcasting.

In step with progress in television broadcasting, FUJINON lenses successively take on the challenges of developing new technologies such as the world's most powerful (*) 101x zoom lens and the world's first hi-vision lens. Starting with the 44x zoom lens in 1983, we have developed a 101x zoom lens, the most powerful in the world. We have now arrived at the point where we are known as FUJINON with the zoom lenses.

Chromatic aberration is the distortion of colors when they pass through the lens. With high-powered zoom lenses, color blurring also occurs. For broadcast TV lenses, we have succeeded in suppressing a range of color aberration in the entire field of view for the zoom lens by using optical technologies honed over many years. In the field of hi-vision lenses, we have also made it possible to deliver excellent color reproduction and high image quality even with high-powered zooms.

For approximately one year the orbiting satellite Kaguya observed the whole area of the moon in the first genuine probe since the Apollo project. To understand the conditions on the moon clearly and accurately, the orbiter was equipped with three types of satellite optics lenses.

Never before seen by mankind, the condition on the surface of the moon was depicted in its true light by three types of FUJINON lenses. The high-resolution terrain camera lens capable of discerning objects of 10m visualized the surface of the moon in 3D. It was instrumental in studying the terrain of the moon as a whole.

By showing color variations across the surface of the moon, the multi band imager lens with its clear image quality supported the study of rock distribution.

In addition, the hi-vision camera lens developed in collaboration with NHK provided clear depictions of the Earth in high quality images. Even in space, FUJINON lenses are working to study the world of the unknown.

We are proud of the high market share for FUJINON lenses, even in the field of lenses for mobile phones where high quality and stable production output are required. In fact, we are the top brand in the world, holding 60% or more of the market for mega pixel camera phones.

We have pioneered lenses for mobile phones ahead of other companies by responding to the needs of a world where there is rapid progress in mega pixel development. From design to production and quality assurances, everything is integrated within the Group, with stable productivity and high quality earning us trust also in the field of lenses for mobile phones.