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,...
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...
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...
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.. Serie of slides from our film photo library. Photos taken from the shadows playing with lights, from different parts of the world in the 80´s decade. Unwanted shadows may ruin a photo....
Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain."Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so as you get older and older your...
Before Nikon made cameras there was Nikkor making optical lenses since 1933. Since then Nikkor became the precision optics that the world used to see itself and its surroundings. The quality and precision of his lenses took Nikkor to the top, and his optics brought...