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NIKKOR — The Thousand and One Nights



The history of Nikon cameras has always gone hand in hand with the history of NIKKOR lenses. Haruo Sato and Kouichi Ohshita will alternately add chapters to the serial story: "The Thousand and One Nights," of Nikkor lenses. Randomly selected topics covering the unique NIKKOR lenses will feature interesting tales on the design and manufacturing.

 

The dawn of the large aperture zoom era

35 mm f/2.8 lens — A History of Improvements

Secrets of a popular standard lens

Remove the camera shake! The Lens Incorporating a Vibration Reduction mechanism in optical system

The Lens Encouraged the Rebirth After the Second World War

Nikon lens incorporated in Compact Camera

Medium telephoto lens pursuing high-quality defocusing

Press photographers' favorite lens that witnessed a number of world records

High-speed medium telephoto lens

An aspherical lens inheriting the concept of the Noct NIKKOR

Micro NIKKOR - History of Development, Behind-the-Scenes Stories and Tradition

Micro NIKKOR - History of Development, Behind-the-Scenes Story and Tradition

Designed to expand the shooting range of COOLPIX

Dawn of a new era; the day that changed SLR systems

User-friendly digital camera for a wide range of customers

Very affordable lens where NIKKOR soul dwells

Ultra wide angle lens directed for an ultra compactness

Mr. KIMURA, Ihei's "right-hand man"

Looking for the Skill on a Large Format Camera

An Aspherical Surface Got Over Sagittal Coma Flare

The World's First Genuine Wide-angle Zoom Lens "Pioneers' Dream"

The First Lens equipped with the Close-Range-Correction Mechanism

"Little lens, Big step"

NIKKOR-H Auto 2.8cm f/3.5

Dream "3, 2-8 lens" long-awaited by press photographers

Made the ED lens more accessible

The world's widest angle of field

Amphibious (on land and underwater) lens for NIKONOS

The Roots of Noct-NIKKOR : The Gaussian (Gauss-type) Super-fast Lens

The World's First Aspherical SLR Lens and Orthographic Projection Fisheye Lens

Best-selling Mid-range Telescopic Lens

Japan's First Compact and Low-price Standard Zoom Lens with Practical Use

Symmetric High-Speed, Wide-Angle Lens

Workhorse type normal lens

Symmetrical wideangle lens that has been passed on to this day




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