Nikon Sendai to produce 30,000 D800 and 5,000 D4 cameras per month

An interesting article found on bernama.com about the production capacity of the Nikon plant in Sendai:

“With the current 1,600 workers, the factory is producing one unit of camera per minute on a daytime shift with each unit of the D800 variant produced every four hours and the D4 variant every five hours.”

The Nikon D4 and D800 are made out of 1,600 components.