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dibyendumajumdar

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Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« on: April 22, 2017, 23:47:00 »
Hi,

It seems that the wonderful series of articles on the history of Nikkor lenses has been removed from the nikkor.com website. Does anyone here know if there is a plan to replace the original articles with a new set? It seems a bit odd that the content has been removed without any information.

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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2017, 23:48:51 »
I noticed the same. It all happened when Nikon adapted their web-pages to their 100th Anniversary.  Not sure if it was intentionally...
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2017, 23:58:40 »
Everything is gone including the Eyes of Nikon series.

Looks intentional as the former links do not work either. I was wondering if the site is being reworked and the content will be launched again.

Is there any way to contact Nikon about this?

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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2017, 23:59:54 »
Yes, they (also from the Japanese site) were removed altogether.

In 2005, the "1001" articles were published as a book.  I suspect that the later articles will also be published as a book, and that's why the "free" articles were removed.
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2017, 00:04:10 »
Quote from: Akira on April 22, 2017, 23:59:54
Yes, they (also from the Japanese site) were removed altogether.

In 2005, the "1001" articles were published as a book.  I suspect that the later articles will also be published as a book, and that's why the "free" articles were removed.

If this turns out to be true, a real shame and pity.
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2017, 00:07:45 »
The optimist side of me might tell that Nikon website would be under thorough reconstruction to celebrate the 100th anniversary, and thus 1001 might be temporarily removed.   ::) ::) ::)
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2017, 00:10:39 »
As my daughter always tells me, "cross your fingers and keep them crossed" ....
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2017, 00:12:28 »
Hope the articles were not crucified...
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2017, 00:36:35 »
Some of it can be found on archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20110206021151/http://imaging.nikon.com:80/products/imaging/technology/nikkor/index.htm

If anyone has time and inclination it would be an afternoon of work to capture them all in the event that they never come back.
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2017, 01:06:14 »
Quote from: Akira on April 23, 2017, 00:07:45
The optimist side of me might tell that Nikon website would be under thorough reconstruction to celebrate the 100th anniversary, and thus 1001 might be temporarily removed.   ::) ::) ::)

it will easily be back at the 1001th anniversary
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2017, 01:53:26 »
Quote from: Frank Fremerey on April 23, 2017, 01:06:14
it will easily be back at the 1001th anniversary

I cannot wait for ten centuries!
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2017, 05:17:51 »
Well ... I enjoyed reading the story of the MF lenses I purchased recently, and it was trilling to read it on the Nikon site rather than some other source

Really hope they do come back
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Re: Nikkor Thousand and One Night tales have been taken down
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2017, 06:09:34 »
 :o :o :o
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