Category: Nikon

Nikon FE Camera makers entered the industry at a particular market stage. The early makers began with brass and mahogany, graduated into smaller folder models, shrunk further with lens technology advances, then into even smaller klapp models and matured into compact monoblock bodies. Nikon came on board in the late 1940s, hitting straight into the monoblock segment with the L,...

Nikon N2000 In the early 1980s, camera makers kept adding features to their models, allowing pro and amateur photographers to share common bodies. Cameras now had it all: manual, AP/SP assist, power winding, electronically controlled stepless shutters,  with bodies getting ever lighter thanks to polycarbonate use. All that was done while sacrificing simplicity. Such models are enigma till you consult...

Nikon Nikkorex F Current value: Nikkorex F Nikkorex F black Nikkorex F with meter Nikkorex F user manual 1 Nikkorex F user manual 2 In the 1920s, Leitz introduced the kleinbildkamera – a small picture camera- that paved the way for this camera style in the coming eighty years. With a decade of setbacks due to the war, this style...

Nikon Nikkormat FT Current value User manual List number 1959 Brand Nikon Format 35mm Model Nikkormat FT Introduced 1965 AKA Nikomat FT Country Japan Qty made 105,000 Initial price Currency Type Compact SLR Body material Metal Mode Manual, needle guided Weight 750 gr,  Body only Class average weight 620 gr,  Body only ASA range 12-1600 Kit lens 2,0/50 Lens make...

Nikon EM Nikon EM current value Nikon EM user manual To build a new tech product it takes several factors. First, to define a need or use, thereafter technical capabilities, then cost constraints and design limitation. Need or use are defined by how the maker sees the market today and in the future. Technical capabilities are both external – what...