- Have you seen those Nikon Amusing Lenses?
- Four Nikon products receive the Red Dot Award Product Design 2011: Nikon D7000, Coolpix P7000, Coolpix S1100pj, EDG 8x42.
- 1966 Nikon F1 helmet cam: Monaco GP 1966, Jackie Stewart driving for Matra was asked by a French photographer to take some images during practice with this Nikon attached to his helmet. The picture was taken by legendary F1 photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmilch.
- Nikons sponsors "Pictures of the Year".
- Vintage Nikon camera advertisement prints for sale.
- The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has confirmed that Nikon UK has become a licensee of London 2012.
- Nikon will take part of the PMA Expo in Sydney, Australia (June 24-26).
- The new Nikon Club Malaysia is now ready for membership registration.
- Real aperture bracelets:
- New Nikkor promotional video:
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Hey Administrator,
That helmet cam seemed dangerous if they had a crash – OUCH.
Nice info though!
Back then no one cared about safety, there was a 2/3 chance that a F1 driver would die on the track.
I’m quite interested in how he triggered the shutter driving around the Monaco track, and that added 1-2kg should have added quite a bit of extra force on Jackie’s neck
what so every race 2/3 of the drivers for that race would die?
that’s pretty amazing
The maths are strong with this one.
>> “Back then no one cared about safety”
BS. They cared a lot, and when Jim Clark died, it sent shock waves amongst the drivers. Clark was the most talented driver in F1, and for him to die made them all feel like it was only a matter of time. Steward organized the first safety protest and driver safety became a very important aspect of the sport.
The driver’s cared. The Track owners and event organisers may have cared, but not enough to do anything about it until Stewart started organizing driver boycotts of races at Spa-Francorchamps (1969) and the Nurburgring (1970), until safety conditions were improved. Stewart also championed the mandatory use of seatbelts and full-face helmets in Formula 1.
[was asked by a French photographer to take some images during practice]
It wasn’t used in the actual race.
The Helmet camera rig is from Alan Gordon Enterprises in Hollywood. They made many helmet camera rigs, if you have seen any skydiving movie made before the advent of small video cameras chances are good they were made with an AGE helmet cam.
BTW they still make 16mm film rigs http://www.alangordon.com/s_filmcam16_minicam.html
…And the lens seems to the be mirror-up-only 21/4
http://www.cameraquest.com/nf214.htm
Makes sense, since exact framing must be pretty difficult
“That helmet cam seemed dangerous if they had a crash – OUCH.”
At least they would have had the picture
Nice Nikkor vid. This is perhaps a little off topic but I will ask anyway..For close up work I was of the opinion that the 105mm was one of the best for that sort of thing. And now I have a bro who has a galloping case of NAS who would like to take the kind of shot where he can count the hairs on a bumblebee’s butt. Any opinions out there?
http://exposureroom.com/members/GertjanStraalman/d355601024904e8a80e04c4a9b77c07d/
My thanks broxibear, very nice vids…I have forwarded this link to my bro and I am sure he will want that 105….
http://gizmodo.com/#!5146675/nikons-fabre-photo-ex-dslr-stereoscopic-microscope-blows-things-up
I’m sure NikonRumors have posted something like this under the EDG scope and FSA-L2 adapter.
yes, I have a review of that “thing”
http://nikonrumors.com/2009/10/05/nikon-fabre-photo-ex-portable-stereoscopic-microscope-review.aspx
Another interesting gadget…I think the 105 will suffice for my bro’s needs though. Thanks to one and all.
I’ll assume you’re going to shoot a dead bee. If you’re going to shoot live subjects, consider a 135, 180, or 200 mm with extension rings. This allows you a greater distance between you and the subject. Here’s a shot I did years back with my Nikkor 135 f2 and a Nikon PK-3 extension ring, shot on Kodachrome 25: http://tinyurl.com/4ysym7j
You can get an extension ring set nowadays with all the electrical contacts so your lenses continue to work with their auto exposure, focus, VR, etc. for ~$180: http://tinyurl.com/43j7mfc
ニコンおもしろレンズ工房
http://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%81%8A%E3%82%82%E3%81%97%E3%82%8D%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%88%BF
Ah.. sorry.. should have typed something to explain the link above. ニコンおもしろレンズ工房 are the Japanese characters from the image of Nikon Amusing Lenses. The Japanese characters liked other Unicode chars are automatically encoded by browsers in the Google query. That’s it. Though most of the pages are in Japanese, they are full of images and the lens spec shouldn’t be too difficult to get.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%81%8A%E3%82%82%E3%81%97%E3%82%8D%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%88%BF&tbs=clir:1
the same search link but translation included
http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=ja|en&u=http://www.nikon.co.jp/news/2000/omoshirol_00.htm
and one of the search results pointed to an old Nikon news page
I need a frightened lens…
I believe that “ニコンおもしろレンズ工房” means “Nikon interesting (or funny or amusing) lens studio (or workshop).” Nikon omoshiro renzu kobo.
own a set of the Nikon Amusing Lenses. Just don’t have the original box….
Also got it from eBay. Much cheaper than the listing.
Monaco GP 1966 – Jackie Stewart was driving for BRM, Matra came later, 68?
Hi Alan,
The image captioning in the magazine I got that information from was obviously wrong. The photographic archives from past sports events are so massive sometimes details are being mixed up or lost when digitized.
Thanks for the info.
Yes, right, in 1965, 1966 and 1967 Formula ! seasons Jackie Stewart drove for BRM. For the 1968 and 1969 seasons he changed to Matra, 1970 til 1973 to Tyrrell.
Maybe the year is wrong and it was an image from the Monaco GP 1968… I don’t know lol ?
i want one of those aperture bracelets
I like the aperture bracelet (singlar). The other two are distance scale and depth of field bracelets respectively
Note to self, when deploying sarcasm, spell check first. “singular”.
I have Nikon EDG 10×42 binos. The newest version…they are quite phenomenal. I used to have Leica Ultravid of the same nominal power. Nikon wins.
promo video is nice and all, but they should rather invest in quality control of their nikors then in PR
why do photography books always have crappy photos as a front cover. WHYYYY!??!??!
it makes me angry.
Because it makes it blatantly obvious who the target audience is.
people who aspire to be cheesy photographers? I guess the front cover does suit.
Wohoo! Bought me those advertisement prints already. Thanks NR!
Canon are the first of the big camera manufacturers to acknowledge parts shortages, specifically regarding repairs…
“Currently, Canon USA has appropriate inventories of most service parts, and repair operations are functioning normally. However, in the near future, certain camera and video service parts may become temporarily unavailable pending recovery efforts. Specifically, repairs of the following products may be affected: Digital Compact Cameras
Digital SLR Cameras and Lenses
Digital Video Cameras (Camcorders), Audio / Visual Projectors
Security Cameras
Binoculars
If a product cannot be repaired in a timely manner due to lack of parts, we will work as necessary with affected customers on an individual basis.
We appreciate your understanding while we work through
this difficult situation.”
http://www.usa.canon.com/CUSA/assets/app/pdf/service/special_web_announcement.pdf
Nothing from Nikon so far.
Here’s an interesting article about how events in Japan have affected the supply and demand of semiconductors. That CMOS sensor in your camera, that’ s a semiconductor (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor)
“Japan is one of the bigger consumers of semiconductors and is home to many electronic device makers, including Sony (SNE) and Nikon. Aside from the country’s fewer purchases of electronics and other goods that contain chips, such as PCs and smartphones, Japanese electronics makers have seen manufacturing stoppages due to both structural damage to their facilities and consistent power outages in the region, which likely will cause a near-term decline in new chip orders.”
http://www.hemscott.com/news/comment-archive/item.do?id=130391