Nikon M-35/S & FX-35/DX

and others

From the early years of Nippon Kogaku K.K. alias Nikon Corporation scientific photography was a serious concern of the engineers in Tokyo. Actually Nikon was staffed with practical and gifted engineers without any commercial interests. Perfection was more important than selling. Apart from making equipment for amateur and professional photographers, Nikon made and still makes instruments for scientists and researchers.

The items listed here are interesting cameras made exclusively for photography via microscopes etc. They have no exposure metering programs, no aperture coupling mechanism, no focusing features, no shutter (some do have a shutter), no viewfinder. Just a camera body with a LTM (Leica Thread Mount) = 39 mm. or with the Nikon F-mount. The ´shutter´ is a manual slide for (long) time exposures. The first versions have manual film advance, the modern versions have a motor drive and even a possibility to imprint data on the film via a data back.

 

Nikon FX-35 & Nikon FX-35A

 

In the era of computers, electron microscopes and digital photography Nikon made equipment, or at least connections and attachments for scientific and industrial photography. Many regular older and modern Nikon film, movie, video and digital cameras can be connected to all kinds of micro/nano instruments. It is unfeasible to list all equipment Nikon has ever made and still produces, as Nikon Corporation has separate sales and export departments for special equipment. Interesting to know that Nikon Corporation is present in most markets where image registration is needed, but in the framework of this web site difficult to give an overview.

Nevertheless for special photography related equipment or items see here for a limited review of special Nikon equipment, which is not available via your regular Nikon dealer.