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5 Things You Did not Know About Nikon
- Nikon is not the name of the company until 1988.
Before that, the company is officially called Nippon Kogaku KK – many people believe that the name has changed before, but it was not until the late 80s. April 1, 1988, to be precise, Nikon Corporation has been officially (re) birth.
Of course, I was using a Nikon for many years (the story suggests the Nikon name was coined in mid-1940), then why did you finally decide change? Well, this particular story Nikon website may shed some light.
The president then met Shigeto Fukuoka former French President Jacques Chirac. On behalf of Nippon Kogaku Kogyo, Chirac simply bowed his head in bewilderment. When Mr. Fukuoka said the word "Nikon" However, the mayor of Paris immediately understood.
Fukuoka President said: "From now on I will not be limited by name Kogaku ("optical") We will work to further progress. seniors. "
- Nikon does not his first camera until 1948.
after 31 years, the company was founded by the merger of three optical manufacturers separated in 1917, Nikon introduced its first camera Nikon I. Before this objective, Nikon Nikkor with the brand with binoculars and microscopes.
Demand for the camera in Japan was enormous, but it has not been without problems. A breath for making the device unreliable left with advance of the film does not work often, which led to numerous complaints from customers and Nikon forced into financial difficulties. No. But he recovered Nikon Nikon M and S 1949, 1950, S2, SP, and finally, the classic Nikon F SLR, improved quality and reliability of each model.
- Originally, all now competing with Nikon, Canon lenses.
First Canon cameras were cheap Japanese Leica clones, and in 1934 announced a 35 mm rangefinder called Kwanon. The Kwanon was only a prototype was never put into production – Which was followed by its first commercial camera, the Canon Hansa in 1936. Canon I had a problem, though – I had no experience of making the lenses, Nippon Kogaku Kogyo hired as a designer and manfufacturer proven optical, and uses the Nikkor lenses. The Canon Hansa actually shipped standard with a 50mm f/3.5 Nikkor.
In fact, much of the first camera was made Canon Nikon – Nippon Kogaku was responsible for the lens, the Lens Mount, viewfinder, and the range finder mechanism. Canon has launched the development of lenses in 1937, but were not available until after the Second World War, and not throw his fast Serena 50mm f / 2 to 1947.
- When its launch in 1959, the Nikon F costs an average of three months salary.
We may think we have trouble with the price of current digital SLRs, but the first Nikon Slr cost ¥ 67,000 – three times the salary of an employee of the Japanese government over time. Still managed to sell one million of them over the next 15 years!
It was the camera that we presented the framework F – the same configuration (but with extra features, especially in the electronic age) still in use today. This installation was revolutionary in his time, which has a large diameter compared to their peers is rangefinder Nikkor F to be much more resistant to mechanical vignetting.
- Nikon Digital Slr First, the D1 was developed from scratch just two years.
We can assume now that the new device is digital, but does little more than 10 years, it certainly was not the case. Although the first Coolpix (the Coolpix 100) was in 1997, Nikon D1 standard was only introduced in 1999.
To produce wine from a Nikon Dslr president in 1997, and engineers have responded by saying it would take four years, three at least. They had two.
The result was a 2.7mp Digital Slr Camera with many features, including cameras surpassed by today's entry level (And also because it is contemporary Digital Cameras, the Coolpix 100 was 3 megapixels), but at the time revolutionary. Quickly displaced the D1 dominance of Kodak Digital SLR market, and sales have surpassed the 100,000 bodies a year, even in U.S. $ 5500 price. With the D1, the market share of Canon Nikon eclipse. Strangely, the camera uses the NTSC color space, not sRGB or Adobe RGB we use today.
This article originally appeared in NikonHQ – main website for Nikon photographers.
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