Nikon SP and F advertisement

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dasuess

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Just ran across the original of this in my piles of stuff, so I scanned a copy in case it's of interest.
 

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That's a great little piece of photo arcania. I have a few old Leica ads as well as a bunch of old photo magazines from the 1950s to the 80s and these days looking through old advertisements is great. Sometimes I find some accessory info I never knew existed.

Phil Forrest
 
My darkroom instructor (also a member of RFF) brought a few old magazines from the 1950's into the darkroom and I saw one of these ads in one of the magazines.

I was quite fascinated by all of the old ads and the prices the old photo equipment was selling for.

Of course, back then no one knew that the F would take off and leave the Nikon rangefinder behind.

Amazing!

Thanks for sharing.

Ellen
 
dasuess said:
Just ran across the original of this in my piles of stuff, so I scanned a copy in case it's of interest.
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Yes, I have the same ad. Here are a bunch of others, ranging from June 1952 up to June 1960, spanning 8 years of fine Nikon ads.

http://www.treefrog.be/photography/

By the way, this webpage is the first of what will eventually become my personal website, mainly about Nikon photography.
 
goodtimes said:
Funny to see how they sized the F to be of identical body dimensions to the SP, on the picture :)
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...Perhaps because the F evolved from the SP, maybe? The experts can chime in on the number, but I think the two cameras have large numbers of interchangeable parts.
 
Cool.

Several of the early Nikon ads strike me as being very similar, down to the layouts & slogans, to Zeiss Ikon Contax ads from before WWII. I wonder if they used the same ad agency &/or the similarities between Nikon RFs & Contax cameras lent themselves to the same kind of campaign.

Jan Van Laethem said:
Yes, I have the same ad. Here are a bunch of others, ranging from June 1952 up to June 1960, spanning 8 years of fine Nikon ads.

http://www.treefrog.be/photography/

By the way, this webpage is the first of what will eventually become my personal website, mainly about Nikon photography.
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furcafe said:
Several of the early Nikon ads strike me as being very similar, down to the layouts & slogans, to Zeiss Ikon Contax ads from before WWII. I wonder if they used the same ad agency &/or the similarities between Nikon RFs & Contax cameras lent themselves to the same kind of campaign.
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That's very interesting to know. Do you have any Zeiss Ikon Contax ads from that era you could share with us?
 
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