"Portrait of Camera"

[alphonse2501]

Few years ago I found a series of mini Japanese documentaries about famous Cameras on Youtube. Until recently I saw Chinese translation subs at Chinese forum and I think it should have English translation. Do there have anyone interest on those videos?

All I can do is translate the titles.

名機の肖像(Portrait of Camera)

Vol. 1 ニコン F の神話 (The Myth of Nikon F)
http://youtu.be/fdiTMHPYFrQ

Vol. 2 ニコン S の起源 (The Origin of Nikon S)
http://youtu.be/Patovx74DOI

Vol. 3 ライカ M の伝説 (The Legend of Leica M)
http://youtu.be/8pugonNY0w8

Vol. 4 カメラの源流 ライカ L (Mother of all Camera: Leica L*)
http://youtu.be/jNOUbLB3GIQ

[*=Barnack's Leica]

Vol. 5 ハッセル 6 x 6 の雄 (Hasselblad: King of 6*6)
http://youtu.be/wnuaAs-hGkU

Vol. 6 2眼レフの王国 ローライ (Rollei: Kingdom of Twin Lens Reflex)
http://youtu.be/40E_mwFHOqo

Vol. 7 キヤノン 二つの名機 (Canon's Two Famous Camera [Canonet & F-1])
http://youtu.be/T-LYGmASBQU

Vol. 8 リンホフの威厳 (The Dignity of Linhof)
http://youtu.be/GNbltzGSBps

Vol. 9 ミノックスの奇跡 (Miracle of Minox)
http://youtu.be/01Uzh-D-8ss

Vol. 10 スイスカメラの粋 (Essence of Swiss Camera [Alpa、Compass、Tessina])
http://youtu.be/McoOVgzLuuM

Vol. 11 キヤノンレンズ 0.95 の夢 (Canon Lens: Dream of 0.95)
http://youtu.be/u8bZmB-BN8g

Vol. 12 オリンパス ニッポンオリジナル (Olympus: Japan Original)**
http://youtu.be/rbcXDeAdlFY

**=For all Zuikoholic/Olympus hardcorer, this is probably the only documentary in YouTube that featured Yoshihisa Maitani explains how he designed Pen F and OM-1.

Vol. 13 原点 カールツァイス (Origin: Carl Zeiss)
http://youtu.be/gp3AWk8S06A

 

[Ansel]

Excellent!

 

[Keith]

Excellent!

................+1 🙂

 

[shimokita]

Starting at 3:01 of video Vol. 1 ニコン F の神話, you can see フォト工房キィートス (Kiitos) service center in Nishioi (Tokyo) that still exists and repairs older Nikon cameras... I was just there earlier today to pick up my F3HP (backup camera) which had some water damage from a previous owner... In recent years they have also regreased a Nikkor-H 28 f/3.5 (factory AI-ed) and AI-ed a Nikkor-P 10.5cm f/2.5... always great service.

The shop looks the same today as in the video ;-)

Good stuff...

Casey

 

[jonmanjiro]

I agree, excellent video series!

Vol. 1 ニコン F の神話 (The Myth of Nikon F)
http://youtu.be/fdiTMHPYFrQ

I was on the roof of that building shown from 0:45 to 0:51 just yesterday 😀

The Nikon F is definitely not a myth... legend or tale would be a better translation 🙂

Starting at 3:01 of video Vol. 1 ニコン F の神話, you can see フォト工房キィートス (Kiitos) service center in Nishioi (Tokyo) that still exists and repairs older Nikon cameras... I was just there earlier today to pick up my F3HP (backup camera) which had some water damage from a previous owner...

At lunch today? I was at the nearby MacDonald's drinking an ice coffee 🙂

 

[shimokita]

At lunch today? I was at the nearby MacDonald's drinking an ice coffee 🙂

actually... it was at lunch time... I arrived about 12:15-12:30 (today) and was in the office for around 30-45 minutes... There were a few people sitting outside at MacD's.

Was in shorts, baseball cap, sunglasses, blue polo shirt, and black backpack... Sorry I missed you ;-)

Casey