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5 Things You Did not Know About Nikon
- Nikon is not the name of the company until 1988.
Prior to this, the company is officially called Nippon Kogaku KK – many people believe that the name changed before, but it was not until the late 80s. April 1, 1988, to be precise, Nikon Corporation was officially (re) birth.
Of course, had been using a Nikon trademark for many years (the story suggests the name Nikon invented in the mid-1940s), so why do finally decide to change? Well, this little story directly from Nikon's Web site can yield some light.
The then President Shigeto Fukuoka met with former French President Jacques Chirac. At the name Nippon Kogaku Kogyo, Mr. Chirac simply bowed his head in bewilderment. When Mr. Fukuoka said the word "Nikon", however, the mayor of Paris understood immediately.
Fukuoka President said: "From now on, do not want us to be limited by the name Kogaku (" optic "). We will work towards further progress greater. "
- Nikon do not make their first camera in 1948.
After thirty-one years of the company was founded by the merger of three separate optical manufacturers in 1917, Nikon launched its first camera, the Nikon I. Prior to this, Nikon lenses made under the brand Nikkor, along with binoculars and microscopes.
Demand for the camera in Japan was enormous, but not without its problems. A wave for the manufacture of the left somewhat dubious camera with film advance often fail to work, which led to many complaints from customers and Nikon forced into financial difficulties. However, he recovered with the M 1949 and 1950 Nikon Nikon S, S2, SP, and finally, the classic Nikon F SLR, quality and reliability with the improvement of each model.
- Nikon originally all now arch-rival Canon lenses.
Canon's first 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 Hansa Canon in 1936. Canon was a problem, though – I had no experience of making the lenses, as Nippon Kogaku Kogyo contracted as a designer and manfufacturer proven optical, and Nikkor lens is used. The Hansa Canon actually shipped as standard with a 50mm f/3.5 Nikkor lens.
In fact, much of the first camera Canon was made by Nikon – Nippon Kogaku was responsible for the lens, lens mount, viewfinder, and the full range finder mechanism. Canon pioneered the development of lenses in 1937, but were not available until after the Second World War, and Serena set up their fast 50mm f / 2 until 1947.
- If was launched in 1959, the Nikon F cost an average of three months' salary.
We may think we have the price wrong with current digital SLRs, but the first Nikon SLR cost 67.000 yen – three times the salary of an employee at the time the Japanese government. Still managed to sell a million of them over the next 15!
This was the camera that introduced us to the F mount – the very same mound (though with added features, especially in the electronic age) which is still in use today. This installation was revolutionary in its time, a large diameter compared to its peers is rangefinder, which allowed F Nikkor lenses to be much more resistant to mechanical vignetting.
- Nikon's first digital SLR, the D1 has been developed from scratch as only two years.
We can assume now that a new digital camera will, but little more than 10 years ago this was certainly the case. Although the first Coolpix (the Coolpix 100) was in 1997, Nikon D1 Classic was introduced in 1999.
To produce a wine with nikon digital slr president in 1997, and engineers responded by saying it would take four years, three at least. They were given two.
The result was a 2.7mp DSLR features overcome many of the cameras today, including entry-level (and also is contemporary digital cameras, the Coolpix 100 were 3MP), but at the same time it was revolutionary. The D1 domain rapidly displaced Kodak digital SLR market, and sales exceeded the target of 100,000 bodies per year, even in the U.S. is $ 5,500 selling price. With the D1, the market share of Canon Nikon eclipsed. Strangely, the camera uses the NTSC color space, not sRGB or Adobe RGB we use today.
Article originally published in NikonHQ – the first Nikon website for photographers.
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