Word: nikon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same is true in cameras. Through the efforts of such topnotch firms as Nikon and Canon, whose cameras are cheaper and almost as good as the best German makes, Japan now enjoys a $6,800,000 export market in the U.S. The Japanese are convinced that it could be bigger still were it not for dozens of other camera makers, who get around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from...
...Japan's new Nikon camera, which will be on the market in four months, has a refinement unknown even to present German 35-mm. cameras: a battery-operated motor for fast shooting which can be pre-set to take any specific number of pictures at either two or three shots per second. Price: about...
...Lucas set out at dawn with a French mechanized column to push deep into enemy-infested territory. Amidst exploding land mines, mortar fire and whining snipers' bullets, Capa sat in the front of the jeep, a thermos of iced tea and a jug of cognac at his side, Nikon and Contax cameras around his neck. Often the column was stopped by a volley of bullets or an exploding mine. Every time, Capa jumped out and snapped pictures as French soldiers searched for the source of the gunfire...
Baby Legs & Butterflies. The serious U.S. amateur does not yield even to the U.S. driver in his passion for new models and new gimmicks. Foreign cameras with exotic names (Japan's Nikon, Germany's Plaubel Makina and Sweden's Hasselblad) attract him as Jaguars and Lancias attract the motorist ($10 million worth of foreign cameras was imported into the U.S. last year). He is particularly taken with such fairly new products as baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes...
Returning, apparently cameraless this time, he had hidden a small Japanese Nikon camera in the centerfold of a thick report that one of the delegates had passed out. Keeping the report on his lap, he aimed the camera with his knees. Later he inadvertently got help from a rival photographer. Hidden behind a piano, the photographer tried to take a flashlight shot. While one guard chased after him and the others were preoccupied with the hearing, Miller stood up and shot the rest of his film, giving LIFE all the pictures it wanted of the meetings that had been "closed...