* The modern Nikon F Mount SLR camera lenses from the late 1970s-present ( its design dates back to 1959 ) can function on the newer Nikon DSLR cameras with some limitations.

Nikon F of 1959 — an early example of 135 film | 35 mm film system camera

The first Japanese pentaprism SLR was the 1955 Miranda T, followed by the Asahi Pentax, Zunow, Nikon F, and the Yashica Pentamatic.

Some SLRs offered removable pentaprisms with optional viewfinder capabilities, such as the waist-level finder, the interchangeable sports finders used on the Canon F1 and F1n ; the Nikon F, F2, F3, F4 and F5 ; and the Pentax LX.

Nippon Kōgaku ( now Nikon Corporation ), for example, used titanium foil shutters for several of their flagship SLR cameras, including the Nikon F, F2, and F3.

File: Nikonf. jpg | The 35 mm film-based Nikon F, 1959, the world's first single-lens reflex system camera

1878 ) next to a 35 mm SLR Nikon F ( ca.

File: Nikonf. jpg | Nikon F of 1959 — the first 35mm system camera

* 1959 – Nikon F introduced.

The Nikon F camera, introduced in 1959, was Nikon's first SLR camera.

The " F " in Nikon F was selected by Nippon Kogaku from the letter F in ' Reflex.

The Nikon F became enormously successful and was the camera design that demonstrated the superiority of the SLR and of the Japanese camera manufacturers.

After the introduction of the Nikon F, the more expensive rangefinder cameras ( those with focal plane shutters ) became less attractive.

It was a combination of design elements that made the Nikon F successful.

The Nikon F also had interchangeable backs and a viewfinder showing 100 % of the image.

The Nikon F evolved from a rangefinder camera, the Nikon SP.

Unlike most 35mm camera systems the Nikon F had a wide range of lenses, covering 21 mm to 1000 mm focal length by 1962.

Subsequent top-of-the-line Nikon models carried on the F series, which has reached the F6 ( although this camera has a fixed pentaprism — the first and the last professional level Nikon SLR to do that ).

The Nikon F revolutionized the photographic market, stealing the thunder of German manufacturers Leica and Zeiss.

The first Nikon F Photomic viewfinder had an independent photocell, then Nikon introduced the Photomic T ( superseded by the Photomic Tn ), which featured through-the-lens metering.

The final metering prism for the Nikon F, the Photomic FTn, introduced in 1968, provided 60 % center-weighted TTL which became the standard metering pattern for Nikon cameras for decades afterwards.

Foreground: Nikon F with eyelevel prism ; Nikon F with FTn Photomic prism ; Nikon F with FTn Photomic prism and F36 motor drive

* A Nikon F Photomic TN Picture Gallery by Mårten Larsson

Nikon F TN Single-lens reflex camera

They include the Heiliges Grab of Görlitz, constructed between 1481 and 1504, and the New Jerusalem Monastery in Moscow Oblast, constructed by Patriarch Nikon between 1656 to 1666.

In the mid-17th century, changes in liturgy and practice instituted by Patriarch Nikon resulted in a split in the Russian Orthodox Church.

*" Basic Concepts and Formulas in Microscopy: Numerical Aperture " by Michael W. Davidson, Nikon MicroscopyU ( website ).

Automatic aperture control is provided with the newer Nikon digital SLR cameras ; with some earlier cameras, the lenses offer preset aperture control by means of a pushbutton that controls the electromagnetic diaphragm.

File: Nikon Coolpix 5200-1. JPG | Nikon Coolpix 5200 One in a line of small cameras by Nikon

Common values for field of view crop in DSLRs include 1. 3x for some Canon ( APS-H ) sensors, 1. 5x for Sony APS-C sensors used by Nikon, Pentax and Konica Minolta and for Fujifilm sensors, 1. 6 ( APS-C ) for most Canon sensors, ~ 1. 7x for Sigma's Foveon sensors and 2x for Kodak and Panasonic 4 / 3 " sensors currently used by Olympus and Panasonic.

The Pen system design team, led by Yoshihisa Maitani, later created the OM system, a full-frame professional 35mm SLR system designed to compete with Nikon and Canon's bestsellers.

File: Thomas Bresson-Sud-lune -- 2008-05-14 ( by ). JPG | Image of the moon taken with a Nikon Coolpix P5000 digital camera via Afocal projection through an 8 inch Schmidt – Cassegrain telescope

The format was introduced in 1996 by Kodak, Fujifilm, Minolta, Nikon, Canon and others.

It was produced until October 1973 and was replaced by the quite similar Nikon F2.

This camera was the first SLR system that was adopted and used seriously by the general population of professional photographers, especially by those photographers covering the Vietnam War, and those news photographers utilizing motor-driven Nikon Fs with 250-exposure backs to record the various launches of the space capsules in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs, all in the 1960s.

Instead of the M42 screw mount used by Pentax and other camera manufacturers, Nikon had introduced the three-claw F-mount bayonet lens mount system, which is still current in a more modified form today.

The Nikon F was succeeded in 1972 by the Nikon F2 series after a production total of 862, 600 bodies.

* Debut of the Nikon F, by Nikon

On 12 December the council pronounced Nikon guilty of reviling the tsar and the whole Muscovite Church, of deposing Paul, bishop of Kolomna, contrary to the canons, and of beating and torturing his dependents.

Kate and Dade's hacker friends — Ramon Sanchez a. k. a. " The Phantom Phreak ," Emmanuel Goldstein a. k. a. " Cereal Killer ", and Paul Cook a. k. a. " Lord Nikon " ( so named for his photographic memory )— act as judges.

* Laurence Mason as Paul Cook alias Lord Nikon

* Singer Paul Simon referenced Nikon Cameras in his 1973 song " Kodachrome.

They opened for the Dave Matthews Band in 2009 at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA ; the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Pelham, AL ; and the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY.