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Gear Talk => Camera Talk => Topic started by: richardHaw on August 18, 2016, 09:56:19

Title: how nikkors were made (Japanese)
Post by: richardHaw on August 18, 2016, 09:56:19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cXsxQIdOdQ

Daitocamera explaining how Nikkors are made. all in Japanese. just watch it for your entertainment :o :o :o
i actually find his commentaries hilarious at times. his repair and overhaul videos are awesome but I just watch it to listen to him complaint.

Title: Re: how nikkors were made (Japanese)
Post by: richardHaw on August 18, 2016, 10:04:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXuwCZm6w8Y

well, here is the actual movie.

i think only me and mr Akira can understand what's being talked about :o :o :o

Title: Re: how nikkors were made (Japanese)
Post by: Erik Lund on August 18, 2016, 10:28:16

Well yes,,, difficult to follow the comments,,,

Also a lot on the SLR cameras as well. Thanks.

Title: Re: how nikkors were made (Japanese)
Post by: richardHaw on August 18, 2016, 10:33:19

same for me,too. my japanese is limited to bad words :o :o :o

at the 4:30s mark, you can see that the production of optical glass is actually a very wasteful process.

Title: Re: how nikkors were made (Japanese)
Post by: the solitaire on August 19, 2016, 17:23:22

Thank you for sharing. Even without spoken text most of what was going on was self explanatory. Very informative, even though I would have loved to understand the narrator as well.

I also liked seeing Japan in the 1960's

Title: Re: how nikkors were made (Japanese)
Post by: Peter on November 01, 2016, 09:28:17

I was a fabricator at a Laser optic factory for three years and I thought that was tedious, man this is how it was done.
Finding the correct orientation of the crystal and hoping it doesn't crack or shatter precision shaping, Concaving and Convexing!!  :o
 I did that stuff as well as polishing, never worked at the coating department.
So next time you get lens flare on a Nikkor-O 35mm f2 think about how much work went into it and how long it has been working..

Great video..