Vintage Nikon F Photomic 35mm Camera Made In Japan & Original Case FINE Clean Provenance. Serial number 7082957 which dates it to being made February to April 1970. We are listing the two lenses that came with this camera separately. Fine clean condition guaranteed, the black case is also fine clean - see the detailed photos. From the estate of William "Bill" Wolf & Esther Wolf of Milton MA. Bill was a former executive with Panasonic Matsushita USA. Nikon F is a 35mm film SLR camera, manufactured by Nippon Kogaku K. Japan (Nikon Corporation since 1988), and produced between 1959-74. It is safe to say that the Japanese camera inrush around 1960 could not have been better timed.
The western world, including the new world, was with few exceptions, stuck in old conventions and, for a wide variety of reasons, unable to exploit the opportunities at hand, despite the fact that there had already been developed several promising SLR concepts. The Japanese engineers saw the opportunities, and made the most of it. At first Nippon Kogaku chose to build rangefinder cameras, but soon they realised that the SLR camera would be the future professional camera of choice, and launched their impressive Nikon F system camera. Several other Japanese camera and lens makers were equally successful in their market segments. In conclusion, it was a complete takeover.
A small window in front of the shutter speed dial shows the flash synchronisation setting, selectable by lifting the chrome collar surrounding the dial. In the middle of the shutter-speed dial is a small black dot a shutter wind indicator: at nine o'clock it is wound, and at seven o'clock it is run out. A film length reminder and an automatic reset frame-counter shares the space at the hub of the wind lever.