Nikkor cine- and TV-lenses

 

Since the early 1950's Nikon Corporation is producing lenses for various movie-, cine- and TV-cameras; mainly cameras made by other manufacturers. Probably the most produced (some say over 80,000 lenses) Cine-Nikkor ever, is the below pictured 1.9/13 mm. Cine-Nikkor-Revere for the Revere 40 movie camera-series.

For this cute and successful 8-mm. movie camera and other amateur movie cameras with the same mount Nikon produced a Cine-Nikkor 1.9/38 mm. and a Cine-Nikkor 1.9/65 mm. These two lenses are rather rare and - nowadays - difficult to find.

Nikon also produced Cine-Nikkor lenses for Super-8 movie cameras, 16mm. movie cameras (in D-, C- and Arri-mount) and TV-Nikkor lenses for various professional (portable and stationary/studio 2/3 inch and 1 inch) TV-cameras, with zoom ranges up to 15 x! In 1984 Nikon introduced its first 7x-zoom lens for a High Definition TV-camera, followed by a high resolution monochrome CCTV (Nikon HR-900W) camera.

As this site deals mainly with lenses for photography information on cine- and TV-lenses will be limited.