MEIDI-YA, Kyobashi Tokyo, Established in 1885

Walk along Ginza Street

Ginza becomes a pedestrian zone on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. The pedestrian zone in Ginza stretches along the main shopping street called Chuo-dori which runs from East to West. Let's walk to the Nikon Kenkyukai venue.

Ginza, Tokyo

Apple store, Ginza

Matsushima Optical Shop

In front of Matsuya department store, there is Matsushima optical shop. The second floor of Matsushima optical shop is dedicated to optical products for specialists. You can buy Zeiss surgical binoculars and Nikon aspheric lenses for ophthalmologists.

Picture signboard of Matsushima

Astronomer

MEIDI-YA, Kyobashi Tokyo

The venue for this month's Nikon Kenkyukai is Kyobashi, just beyond Ginza. Close to the venue is the MEIDI-YA Building. According to the company history, MEIDI-YA was founded in Meiji 18 (1985). And this beautiful MEIDI-YA building was built in Showa 8 (1933).

Nikon Kenkyukai Tokyo Meeting

This month's theme was very unusual. We researched the 708 Nikkor 5cm F2 and 707 EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5 lenses. We saw a scarce lens and the instruction manual on the collection table.

Nikon Kenkyukai Tokyo Meeting

708 Nikkor 5cm F2 Lenses

The 708 Nikkor 5cm F2 is a lens with the first three digits of the serial number starting with 708.

708 5cm F2 lenses

Nikkor 5cm F2 No. 708464 and 5cm F2 No. 708610

Nikkor 5cm F2 No. 708306

Rare numbered Nikkor 5cm F2 No. 420439

Vintage 707 old EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5

The 707 old EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5 is a lens with the first three digits of the serial number starting with 707.

Rare 707 old EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5 No. 70794

Rare 707 old EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5 No. 70794

Old EL Nikkor World

Rare 707 old EL Nikkor No. 70794 and No. 70799 are on the table. The serial number is 70794 and 70799, which is 5 different. They may be sisters born on the same day.

Rare 707 old EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5 No. 70794 and No. 70799

707 Old EL Nikkor 5cm F3.5 and 705 Nikkor lenses

Picture with old EL Nikkor

We took pictures with Nikon digital 6091 and old EL Nikkor No. 70794. In this state, focus was achieved at about 5 meters. It was a very nice picture with an old EL Nikkor.

Digital camera and old EL Nikkor

Very nice picture with old EL Nikkor

Collection Table

Rare collections are lined up on the table. The transparent block is a glass block engraved with the appearance of the Nikon I.

Rare items on the collection table

Special Glass Nikon I, NHS Convention 2006 Vienna Gift

Rotoloni, and Meeting Chairmen Uli Koch, Hans Ploegmakers
(c) Photo by Bill Kraus, U.S.A., 2006

This gorgeous glass block was a gift from the 2006 NHS convention in Vienna.

Shield Nikon Boxes

Hatsu introduced wonderful Nippon Kogaku items to us. They are Nikon panorama head and Nikon level. Of course, they are in the age of Nikon S. They have not been opened for a long long time.

Un-opened and Shield Nikon Original Boxes

S Nikon Panorama Head and Nikon Level Original Boxed

Very rare Instruction Manual

Have you seen the instruction manual of the Nikon repro copy outfit model P ?
If you are a normal human being, you might not have looked at it yet. Yes, this is an original instruction manual of the Nikon repro copy outfit model P. As you know, this copy outfit's number of production is less than Nikon I. Thank you Hatsu.

Instruction Manual for Nikon Repro Copy Outfit Model P

Very rare Instruction manual in Nikon equipment

Canon FD Mount Nikkor Lens

An interesting Nikkor lens was presented to us. This is an Auto Nikkor lens with an FD mount adapter. In the very old days, old Canon cameras had Nikkor lenses.

Canon FD Mount Nikkor Lens