Word: nikons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encourage. Bauer's idea is Hawed in another way as well it assumes that nations which are most efficient in producing a given good today till continue to be most efficient. If Japan, for example, had adopted this idea after World War II, the names Toyota, Sony and Nikon might be a bit less meaningful today...
...success of Canon has been a blow to Nikon, its chief rival. Canon now produces 31% of Japan's output of single-lens reflex cameras, in contrast to Nikon's 16%. Moreover, Canon draws raves from some professional photographers, particularly for the sharpness of its lenses. Canon also wins high marks for its field service, and its technicians are known for driving all night or hopping aboard airplanes to come to the aid of professional photographers with broken gear. In the prestige race, though, Nikon still has an edge with many professionals. Says Nikon Managing Director Hiroshi Moromisato...
...Angeles Olympics next summer will be the pride of capitalist gamesmen. For what the Yugoslavs whimsically call "the other Olympics," they have gathered $140 million from worldwide TV rights, $3 million from Coca-Cola, and various other millions from 22 corporations, including the Miller Brewing Co., Nikon and Kellogg, to put on something of their own commercial Games. Unlike the Los Angeles production, however, the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games have required a great deal of construction. And far from refusing individual contributions as the Los Angeles committee has, the Sarajevo organizers have politely accepted $10 million from 1.4 million citizens...
...bang journalism" but also to capture "the feeling of the people trying to live there." A recent honor which Reed received seems to suggest that his desire to depict the human-side of tragedy is not just a goal but a talent. Earlier this year he won the prestigious Nikon World Understanding award for his Central American shots...
...robbery led to his arrest and conviction. Said Eder: "I've been looking at his pictures all year. Let me tell you how good this Neil Leifer is. The only camera in America better than Neil Leifer's is at Citibank." Leifer photographed Eder by mounting his Nikon with a 16-mm fisheye lens on the ceiling right over the middle of the cell, then using a remote-controlled infra-red signal to snap the shutter in order to keep himself out of the picture...