Nikon Notes & Interesting Articles

Nikon Product Brochures:

• Nikon UV-105 F4.5 Lens illustrated one page brochure describing the Nikon UV-105 photographic lens that is offered by special order through Company Seven. This is a current production lens that replaces the original UV-Nikkor (PN 1453) that was introduced in September 1985.

  The UV-105 lens is an exceptionally sharp 105mm f4.5 conventional lens with macro (2:1) capability too. However, this lens is most acclaimed for its usefulness from 220nm in the ultraviolet up through the visual spectrum and into the near IR at 900nm. This this is a preferred lens for forensics, medical studies, electric discharge studies, research, or for the more dedicated amateur who seeks to explore portions of the world invisible to the eye. This lens is provided with the Nikon F mount and as such can be attached onto any Nikon SLR film or digital camera, or onto a Bellows or other fixtures.

  This Nikon UV Lens is complemented by our Long Distance Microscopes that can provide resolution down to the sub-micron level.

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• Nikon UV-Nikkor Lens Brochure illustrated eight page brochure describing the original 1985 production version of the current Nikon UV-105 lens described above, and showing examples of applications for the lens in materials and biology studies.

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• Nikon Rayfact UV-105 F4.5 Lens Manual complete illustrated instruction manual provided with the current special order Nikon UV-105 photographic lens made since 2006 to the present. Document is an Adobe .pdf file available for download upon request with the acquisition of the lens.

• UV-Nikkor 105mm f4.5 Lens Manual complete thirty nine (39) page illustrated instruction manual provided with the original production UV-Nikkor lens of 1985 to 1999. Text is in English and Japanese. Document is a scan from the original in Company Seven's Archives. Provided as an Adobe .pdf (1,666,864 bytes) file.

• Reflected Ultraviolet Imaging for Forensics Applications by Dr. Austin Richards. Thirty one (31) page color illustrated paper revised in March 2010 discussing reflected Ultraviolet lighting for forensics applications however, the content is useful for most who are interested in UV imaging. In this paper he discusses the Nikon UV-105 photographic lens erroneously reported as not in production and the Baader Planetarium U-Filter sometimes referred to as the 'UV' or 'Venus Filter', both which are offered by Company Seven. Document is a Adobe .pdf (4,006,185 bytes) file.

Company Seven's Virtual Nikon Archives and Museum Items:

• Nikon Nikkor 300mm f/2 ED IF and Tochigi Nikon 300mm T2.2. In our tribute to rare Nikon ultra-telephoto lenses that remain unrivaled even today we have written this illustrated article where we discuss the development, optical and mechanical arrangements, and history of three versions of the Nikon 300mm f/2.0 ultra-fast telephoto lenses originally developed by Soichi Nakamura and Kiyoshi Hayashi. We focus on three variants: the Nikon's Nikkor 300mm f/2 ED IF lens, the Nikkor 300mm f/2 ED IF lenses as modified by Century Precision Optics, and the production by Nikon's 'Tochigi Nikon' factory of twenty new 300mm T2.2 lenses in 2004. An example of each is in our collection and some are displayed at our showroom museum. Contents copyright Company Seven and respective contributors.

  Right: Nikon company logo familiar to those of us who came up from the 1970s. Used through the turn of the 21st Century.

• "Telephoto Lens With Large Relative Aperture" (Nikon 200mm f/2 ED IF Lens) Patent US4176913 by Soichi Nakamura and Kiyoshi Hayashi. The eleven page illustrated Patent granted on 4 December 1979 for their new "Telephoto Lens With Large Relative Aperture". In this paper they discuss the first of a new generation of ultra-fast telephoto lenses with internal focus (IF) and nearer close focus capability. This document is hosted by Company Seven in support of the Nikon 300mm f/2 ED IF lens, an example of which is displayed at our showroom museum collection. We will post an illustrated article about these lenses early in 2011. This download socument is a Adobe .pdf (431,562 bytes) file.

• "Fast Telephoto Lens" (Nikon 300mm f/2 and 400mm f/2.8 ED IF Lenses) Patent US4176913 by Soichi Nakamura and Kiyoshi Hayashi. The twenty-four page illustrated Patent granted on 4 December 1979 for their new "Fast Telephoto Lens". In this paper they discuss two of Nikon's new generations of ultra-fast telephoto lenses with internal focus (IF) and nearer close focus capability, the 300mm f/2 ED IF and the 400mm f/2.8 ED IF. This document is hosted by Company Seven in support of the Nikon 300mm f/2 ED IF lens, an example of which is displayed at our showroom museum collection. We will post an illustrated article about these lenses early in 2011. This download document is a Adobe .pdf (582,428 bytes) file.