Photographers/Journalists & Their Nikons/Nikkors

[RonVol]

American Portrait Photographer Annie Leibovitz with a Nikon F.
Not sure what the Nikkor is.

[BEZ]

Don McCullin

[RonVol]

Don McCullin

Nice one.
That's a classic shot of Don.

[Hugh_3170]

Ron, the former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser, was a keen Nikon devotee right up to his recent death.  (He had even ordered in the new 300mm PF lens only days before he died.)

The following image shows Fraser trying out a Nikon lens in Japan.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

A 600/5.6 Nikkor-P in the AU focusing adapter. Just the right tool for a PM in pinstriped suit....

He even was using the quick-focusing handle on the AU.

[RonVol]

Ron, the former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Fraser, was a keen Nikon devotee right up to his recent death.  (He had even ordered in the new 300mm PF lens only days before he died.)

The following image shows Fraser trying out a Nikon lens in Japan.

Hugh, that's an awesome find...............thanks heaps 

[rosko]

A 600/5.6 Nikkor-P in the AU focusing adapter. Just the right tool for a PM in pinstriped suit....
He even was using the quick-focusing handle on the AU.

And he has even an human bipod...

[RonVol]

Igor Kostin and his Nikons/Nikkors in Ukraine, 1986.

Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986.
He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kiev, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. Kostin′s aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was widely published around the world, showing the extent of the devastation and triggering fear throughout the world of radioactivity-contamination the accident caused................all at a time when the Soviet media was working to censor information regarding the accident, releasing limited information regarding the accident on 28 April 1986, until the Soviet Union′s collapse in 1991. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kostin

[RonVol]

This is the above shot, un-edited.
The yellow-green tint around some of the highlights & shadows is the film's reaction to the high levels of radiation.

[RonVol]

This is the first photograph ever taken of the accident, and the only photo that survives from the morning of the accident. Igor Kostin was a photographer from Kiev who became world famous for his images of the the clean-up operation. The image is very noisy because the radiation was destroying the film in his camera. Of all the shots he took on that flight, this is the only one that wasn't ruined. - http://gorillafeed.com/its-the-29th-anniversary-of-the-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-today-heres-what-happened/

[chambeshi]

Remarkable photographs, thank you for posting. The telephoto he is holding upright is the 400 f5.6 IFED Nikkor. Fantastic lens at 1.2 kg, which Nikon have yet to emulate in any new incarnation. Their new 300 f4 PF falls 100mm short in FL and the 200-500 is much less compact. Albeit both are VR and AF-S. A fresnel 400 would be one superb instrument ...... Do you read me Fives, Nikon?

Igor Kostin and his Nikons/Nikkors in Ukraine, 1986.

. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kostin

[RonVol]

Remarkable photographs, thank you for posting. The telephoto he is holding upright is the 400 f5.6 IFED Nikkor. Fantastic lens at 1.2 kg, which Nikon have yet to emulate in any new incarnation. Their new 300 f4 PF falls 100mm short in FL and the 200-500 is much less compact. Albeit both are VR and AF-S. A fresnel 400 would be one superb instrument ...... Do you read me Fives, Nikon?

You're welcome and thanks for identifying the tele Nikkor.
I'm sorry but I don't understand your question - "Do you read me Fives, Nikon?"

[Hugh_3170]

I see that Igor Kostin died in his 79th year.  Many of the helicopter pilots were not so lucky and died of radiation sickness as a result of their exposure to the radiation in the early days after the disaster.  Others died in the ensuing years from radiation induced cancers.

[MFloyd]

Igor Kostine died in a car accident.

[Hugh_3170]

Thanks - not that any form of death is nice.  At least he escaped radiation sickness (a horrible demise) or cancer (not so nice either).