The Nikkor-P.C 1:2 f=8.5cm received the first attention, but the 5cm f1.5 (later f1.4) and 135mm Nikkors also received praise. The Nikon M was sold in the PXs, and United States sales resumed, but the camera received little attention in the western media until the fall of 1950, when photographers from the Life magazine began reporting on the Nikkor lenses' sharpness. Therefore Nippon Kogaku settled for an intermediate frame format of 24 × 34mm, but did change the gearing to increase the number of perforations per image to the standard 8 (instead of 7 for the 24 x 32), This was acceptable to the export market as slides, although still slightly narrower, were now always cut between frames.
#Nikon 35mm camera full
The Nikon's body casting and shutter did not permit increasing the format to a full 24 x 36mm.
Introduced in the autumn of 1949, this model can be recognized by the M preceding the body number. Effectively cut off from the two most important markets for their new camera, Nippon Kogaku redesigned the camera's film gate, pressure plate and gearing in August 1949.
In addition, the Central Purchasing Office (CPO) that controlled the sales of cameras to the military exchange stores in Japan decided that they would not approve cameras for sale with that format either. It did not correspond to the automatic slide cutting machines being used in the US, and the images might be sliced in the middle. However, the United States importers, Overseas Finance and Trading Company, objected to this non-standard format. The factory, encouraged by the Japanese government, chose the 24 × 32mm frame size pioneered by Chiyoda Kogaku-known as the Nippon format-which yielded more frames per length of film, and matched more closely the common paper sizes. However, both the shutter and rangefinder mechanism followed the Leica's, resulting in a simpler, easier to manufacture design. Because it uses a derivative of the Zeiss' Contax camera mount, the Nikon camera bears a strong external resemblance to that camera. Production grew slowly over the next year, with all but a few of the cameras being sold to overseas markets including the United States. Sales began in September 1948 with a shipment of 100 cameras to Hong Kong. After over a year of development and testing, manufacture began in March 1948. The original design was approved by September 1946. It is a 35mm rangefinder camera, now known as the Nikon I. For the second photo, there's a lot of range between light and shadow, and that'd be a tricky one for the N90 as well as the film itself.The Nikon was the first camera introduced by the optical manufacturer Nippon Kogaku K.K. That said, in your first photo, I have to wonder if the camera got it right but the scanner tried to bring up the darker green of the trees to be closer to middle gray - and that would explain the blown-out tree trunk.
Your 3rd photo, wide-angle landscape with shadows and a lot of sky, is an example of that bit dark in the shadows and hot in the sky, but I think the camera did a good job of granting more importance to the lower section of the photo. Keep in mind that film has less dynamic range than digital, so in a situation with a lot of contrast, something has to give. This photo could be a stop or two darker and would have looked more like what I saw, but I think it was trying to get those dark bricks to middle gray:
That said, if it's going to get it wrong, it does seem to blow out the highlights a bit (but these could be recovered with some burning-in, either digitally or in the darkroom). I have a Nikon N8008, which also has an early matrix metering system, and I've been amazed at how well it does in tricky situattions: The first two shots look a little hot to me the rest look good, and the question is, is this down to scanning (which has to make its own exposure based on average density of the neg) or the camera? I agree, it would be good to see the negatives (though I think color negs are trickier to "read" than B&W).
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