Special Collection 4

Special Collection 4

Nikon Museum Special Collection

Nikon Hand Fundus Camera

Great Stage and Presentation

Nikon Hand F Hand Fundus Camera
A special and medical Nikon F camera for close-up ophthalmic photography of the retina of the human eye. The camera is fitted with a pistol grip for one-hand operation.

Nikon Hand Fundus Camera 1963

Special Nikon F

Control Unit

Historical Very Old Fisheye-Nikkor

This was a fisheye lens developed at the request of the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the first fisheye lens produced by Nikon (then Nippon Kogaku).

Fisheye-Nikkor 16.5mm F8 1941

The Japanese Imperial Navy
Fisheye-Nikkor 16.5mm F8 1941

Fisheye Nikkor 19.3mm F3.5

A special fisheye lens for the Unit Camera for all-sky all-circumference movies, developed by GOTO INC. This unit consisted of five cameras, and this special fisheye lens was mounted "Astrorama - multi-dimensional world", was screened on a 30 m-diameter dome screen in the Midori-Kan pavilion at the Japan World Exposition, Osaka 1970.

Fisheye Nikkor 19.3mm F3.5 1969

Television Projection Device

This device was developed for public television, to enlarge the image from the picture tube and project it onto a screen. It reflected the picture from the picture tube using a spherical mirror, and enlarged and projected the picture. A Schmidt lens is equipped to correct spherical aberrations and coma, which occur when using a spherical mirror. Nikon embarked on the development of the first large-diameter Schmidt lens for installation in television projection devices, which was very difficult.

In 1953, Television Projection Device No. 1, with a 55 cm large-diameter Schmidt lens, was completed. It could fully resolve 525 scanning lines eve on a large 4.7 x 6 m screen some 18 m away. The production technology of this lens influenced the development of numerous Nikon products, including astronomical instruments, lenses for cameras, binoculars and semiconductor lithography systems. The exhibited device was produced in 1955 and was smaller than the Television Projection Device No. 1.

Television Projection Device 1955

Aligner AM100

Aligner AM100 1960

Coordinate Meter

Coordinate Meter 1965

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