Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Video of a Nippon Kogaku optics factory from the 1940s

By [NR] admin | Published: August 6, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PE7KKeYTek&feature=youtu.be This video footage is made up of excerpts taken from a Japanese war-time film. The film has a patriotic agenda and is titled ‘Ichiban Utsukushiku’ (The Most Beautiful). Directed & written by Akira Kurosawa (regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema), the footage shows what an early Nippon Kogaku (NIKKO/Nikkor/Nikon) […]

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Nikon Q1/2017 financial report: profit is up, sales are down

By [NR] admin | Published: August 4, 2016

Reuters: “Nikon Q1 profit soars; sees higher profit in FY” Net income 176.2 percent higher than last year Earnings per share are 28.92 yen, higher than 10.46 yen last year. Net sales declined 8.9 percent Nikon released their financial results for the Imaging Products Business for the first quarter of the year ending March 31, 2017:

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Tour Divide by Eddie Clark

By [NR] admin | Published: July 31, 2016

Tour Divide by Eddie Clark (website | Facebook |Instagram | Flickr , all photos were shot with a D500 and D750 cameras): My first year of relying solely on photography as a source of income was 2009, which is also the first year I shot the Tour Divide.  Back then the Tour Divide was still very […]

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Nikon is 99 years old today

By [NR] admin | Published: July 25, 2016

Happy birthday to Nikon – the company turns 99 years old today. From Wikipedia:

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Most pros used Nikons to record Apollo 11 blast-off to moon

By [NR] admin | Published: July 21, 2016

47 years ago the Lunar Module ‘The Eagle’ landed on the moon… Most pros used Nikons to record Apollo 11 blast-off to moon When Apollo 11 slowly lifted skyward from Cape Kennedy on its lunar flight, spewing violent clouds of smoke and flame in its wake, more cameras than pairs of eyes seemed to be aimed […]

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Another Nikon price increase is coming to the UK on August 1st

By [NR] admin | Published: July 19, 2016

Another Nikon price increase is coming to the UK on August 1st because of the falling value of the British Pound against the Japanese Yen: From what I understood the price increase will be across the board and will include all Nikon products. The last Nikon price increase in Europe was just few months ago. If […]

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An American View of Havana

By [NR] admin | Published: July 17, 2016
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An American View of Havana by Geoff Livingston (Photoshelter | 500px | Flickr): Havana Offers Much More than Cars Cuba offers Americans a forbidden destination. Even in the current era of warming between Havana and Washington, DC, we still need a special visa to visit Cuba. Worse, there is a sense that when all of the barriers finally drop, […]

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