Visit the NHS on Facebook

Thanks to NHS member Steven Koves for creating and administering our new Facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nikon-Historical-Society/193619477350338

Nikon Digital Rangefinder?

Until the Nikon digital RF rumors subside or come true, you can download templates (skins) to "change" your iPhone or iTouch into a Nikon RF here:
http://www.nikonjin.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=855

Nikon on Zeiss M-mount

A new thread on the rangefinderforum.com by Jon Manjiro lists the Nikon S-mount lenses which cannot (and can) be used with the Amedeo type adapters on the ZI M-mount.

Specifically he finds:

1. Nikkor-O 2.1cm f4 (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)
2. W-Nikkor 2.5cm f4 (NO - will mount but cannot be focused) 
3. W-Nikkor 3.5cm f1.8 (vintage/reissue) (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism
4. Nikkor-N 5cm f1.1 internal mount (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)
5. Nikkor-N 5cm f1.1 external mount (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)

In addition:

1. Voigtlander SC Skopar 21mm f4 (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)
2. Voigtlander SC Skopar 25mm f4 (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)
3. Voigtlander SC Skopar 28mm f3.5 (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)
4. Voigtlander SC Skopar 35mm f2.5 (NO - rear element too large, interferes with rangefinder mechanism)

Follow the thread here:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79631

Kodak

"Kodak Reaffirms Plan to Complete Transformation to Sustainable, Profitable Company Starting 2012

Revenue from Four Key Digital Growth Businesses Outpaces the Market and Approaches $2.0 Billion in 2013, with Positive Earnings Contribution; Consumer Inkjet to Achieve Profitability During 2011, Commercial Inkjet During 2012; Kodak Driving Improved Performance from Established Digital Cash Generators; Company Has Sufficient Resources and Financial Flexibility to Complete Transformation."

Read the complete article here: http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&pq-locale=en_US&gpcid=0900688a80ea9257

www.cameramanuals.org

If you are interested in what your Nikon rangefinder cost when it was new www.cameramanuals.org/ has catalogs from the 50's. If you grew up in the Midwest, Central Camera, in Chicago, was a photographers' landmark along with Altman's Camera.

Here is their catalog from 1958 www.cameramanuals.org/booklets/central_camera_1958.pdf listing the Nikon S2 with a 50 f1.4 for $345 and only $494 for the body with a f1.1.  To put that in perspective $494 is $3600 in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.

But still, it makes one want to crank up the old Tardis?