how nikkors were made (Japanese)

[richardHaw]

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

Daitocamera explaining how Nikkors are made. all in Japanese. just watch it for your entertainment
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.

[richardHaw]

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

[Erik Lund]

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

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

[richardHaw]

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

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

[the solitaire]

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

[Peter]

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!! 
 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..