It was hard to find, but here it is: Many years in this business and I had never seen an SB-5 in its original box and with all its components and manuals. But here it is, this elusive piece finally becomes part of the Niko-Film collection,...
Launched in 1959, the NIKON F instantly won the confidence of professional photographers and recorded sales of over 800,000 units in Japan and overseas. A decade later in 1971, its successor, the NIKON F2 was released. The NIKON F camera was already renowned for its high...
A tribute to one of the most iconic cameras in history.https://vimeo.com/782988680Hello and welcome to Nikon Film. Today's episode deals with an aspect that is rarely considered when looking at a venerable and legendary camera. In today's world, where people love their oppression and worship technologies that take...
In its day, most photographers used color negatives and made prints out of them. They rarely considered the possibility of photographing slides. In fact, slides were —and are— always strange territory, not for everyone… but it shouldn't be a scary concept either. Shooting slides has...
We are the last generation that can experience true wilderness. Already the world has shrunk dramatically. To a Frenchman, the Pyrenees are “wild.” To a kid living in a New York City ghetto, Central Park is “wilderness.” Even travelers in Patagonia forget that its giant,...
Our world moves forward with broken things. Broken earth to produce a harvest, broken clouds to bring rain, broken grain to make bread, broken bread to give us strength. You too have to be broken at some point in order to emerge stronger. Slides of a...
A cynic would say that the archaeological evidence shows primarily how buildings met the ground, not how they really looked. In fact, the most ardent archaeologists today may be not the professionals going by this noum, or the paleontologists or anthropologists. The modern builders, engineers...
During the '80, Nikons with a motor drive attached started running film at a rate of 6 fps. That meant that it took about 6 seconds for a reel of 36 pictures to be gone if you forgot to lift your finger ...
As the most mundane inquiries, colors in India have a habit of ending this way: there may be two colors, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different. If the radiance of...