Thank You so much for introducing us to such a wonderful man. He has so much history in his head and was so nice to share with us all. I learned a lot today and thanks agin for doing this interview. Looking forward to more of this man.
Very nice presentation! In Japanese, “niko” means “smile”-it’s a play on words that doesn’t translate into English. I suppose “mat” is short for “amateur,” so the name means smile for the camera bug! It’s impressive that they could serve both market segments. Many companies fail when they try this. Such a gutsy company!
Excellent talk Mr Woo . Interesting facts with a bit of gentle humour thrown in. I love the comparison of the Nikomat not sitting at the same dining table as the Nikon family. More from this gentleman please. I've learnt a lot more here about my Nikon cameras in such a short time.
I purchased my Nikkormat in 1972. Has had a Lot of use and still works like new. Only have had the light seals replaced. Recently have added a F and F2.
Two Nikkormat cameras Mr Woo did not mention, but will certainly know of. The Nikkormat FS was a meter-less version of the FT, and the FT3. The FT3 was only made as a stopgap for a few months in 1977, because the Nikon FM was not ready for market. The FT3 was the first Nikkormat with internal metering linkages like the FM and subsequent Nikons, and accepts modern batteries.
Buy a good quality adaptor for F-mount to whatever your digital camera has. Nikon used the same mount from 1959 until autofocus was introduced, so there are a lot of manual-focus Nikon lenses available, some of them legendary, like the 105mm f:2.5 fex.
@@hansemannluchter643 I'm adapting Voigtlander and Zeiss F-Mount lens on my Z8. Sold off all my DSLR gear a couple years back before I started traveling in Asia. Once I get settled, I will start looking for some vintage lens again.
Great program. Hope to see the later Nikons like my FE which btw will be buried with me and also more of the other great brands. Cheers from Australia.
Beautiful cameras, just look at the materials were used. And that vintage click. I’m still holding on my Olympus OMD EM cameras. The materials are top notch still and they just work! I can’t part with my Canon 7D mark II to sentimental to me.
I bought an early Nikkormat FT 15 years ago, and it was in such perfect condition I went back to using my FTn and FT2s. As it had remained in new condition for 44 years (now 59 years), it seemed wrong to submit the camera to normal use. No baseplate or lens mount marks, just as if it had come straight from the box. I have no idea of the backstory, I guess someone bought the Nikkormat, put it in a drawer where it remained until the property was disposed of. It cost £34!
Many thanks for this excellent talk of Mr Woo! I owned a mechanical Nikkormat as a second body to my Nikon F2 in the seventies. I would shoot one body with color slide film and the other one with Tri-X black-and-white. Both great cameras. The only quirk of (at least my) Nikkormat was that when you kept your thumb behind film transport lever to quickly forward to the next exposure, the smallest pressure on the lever would block the shutter release button. Missed some “decisive moments” that way. This would not happen on my F2. Wonder if Mr Woo or other Nik(k)ormat users had the same experience.
Nikon have long said they don’t actually care if the US market pronounce it Nykon instead of Nee-kon. It is, after all, a made up word designed for the international market, the company name for decades was always Nippon Kogaku. Japanese pronunciation tends to stress the ‘Nee’ a bit more than the rest of the non-US world, where it tends to be ‘Nick-on’.
Thank you Mr. WOO! HAD NO IDEA SO MANY NIKORMATS MADE! YOU HAVE EDUCATED ME, THANK YOU! SO THERE WAS INTENSE COMPETITION FOR NIKON TO RIVAL LEICA. AND NIKON FINALLY GAVE UP? AND DECIDED TO DESIGN ENTIRELY NEW CONCEPT! LOOK THROUGH THE LENS NOT AT IT! THANK YOU! THE ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED, FOCAL LENGTH TO FILM PLANE CRUCIAL OR OUT OF FOCUS! SO YOU CAN HAVE A BAD F AND NOT KNOW IT! STILL DELIVER MIRKY PICTURE. WHAT GOOD F WITH BAD FILM PLANE? WHAT GOOD LEICA WITH BAD FILM PLANE? MANY THANKS MR. WOO! PLEASE TALK ABOUT 1951 NIKON S NEXT! WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT S . THANK YOU SO MUCH! I GREW UP WITH F. ALLWAYS GOT MEDIOCHER RESULTS. WONDER WHY? OH! YES, IT HAD MIRANDA FOCUS SCREEN! MAYBE WHY DADS OLD PHOTOS NEVER 100% SHARP? MY BEST PHOTOS CAME FROM PENTAX MV. HAD SEIKO SHUTTER! I OWNED TWO FS ONE TIME.LOST THEM. THEN I BOUGHT A NIKON S. FIXED STICKY SHUTTER, STILL PHOTOS NOT 100% SHARP. HELP ME MR.WOO TO UNDERSTAND WHY? IF YOUR ABLE. SORRY TO IMPOSE BUT VERY CURIOUS. THANK YOU FOR ANY FREE HELP.😅
In any reflex camera system the focused image must agree on the viewfinder and the film plane i.e. image focussed in the finder must also be equally sharp in the resultant image. The usual area that can be knocked out of position are the film plane, focusing screen seating , relax mirror. It takes an experience tech with the right tools to rectify the discrepancy. A simple test is to set shutter on B lock shutter open, place the dreaming film or another focussing scree withagniffirer focus the image on this set up and check distance scale on lens. It should agree. Then look thru the viewfinder, the image should be equally sharp. If the film plane images does not agree with the finder image, dome adjustments need to be done. Most camera film plane are die cast so no adjustments needed but some are fitted with a plate as the film plane "Im this case adjustments needed. areas of possible adjustments , reflex mirror, focussing screen seating.
John, i think you found a gem : Mr Woo hold such a wonderful wealth of camera history. Would you consider doing an approximately 45min length with Mr Woo on camera's history? E,g Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Leica, Olympus. There's arent many energtic narrator likes Mr Woo. And if you are heading to Penang, i can bridge you a few veteran in film photography for content. I own F2, F3, F5, FM3a, wonderful gears!
Ot have a copy of the early Nikon s rf camera. I believe the shutter speed dial is the rotating type. Normally you need to cock the shutter first by the film winder, then lift and rotate the dial to select the speed, then fire.
Great description by Mr Woo of 'the poor man's Nikon' These are such capable cameras and the Nikon Shuffle is one of my guilty pleasures! Many thanks.
Love those old mechanical Nikons ...🦘
Thank You so much for introducing us to such a wonderful man. He has so much history in his head and was so nice to share with us all. I learned a lot today and thanks agin for doing this interview. Looking forward to more of this man.
Thanks 🙏 I have more coming up Olympus and vintage German cameras
Thank you Mr Woo. That was very insightful of the history of Nikomrmat and the rivalry between Leica and Nikon.
Excellent. Thank you Mr. Woo for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you Mr. Woo. Love these Nikon cameras!! 👏👏👏👏👏
The FTN is my first camera getting into the hobby and I love it. It just feels amazing in your hands
Very nice presentation! In Japanese, “niko” means “smile”-it’s a play on words that doesn’t translate into English. I suppose “mat” is short for “amateur,” so the name means smile for the camera bug! It’s impressive that they could serve both market segments. Many companies fail when they try this. Such a gutsy company!
These are fantastic and rugged cameras. A best-kept secret!
Excellent talk Mr Woo . Interesting facts with a bit of gentle humour thrown in. I love the comparison of the Nikomat not sitting at the same dining table as the Nikon family. More from this gentleman please. I've learnt a lot more here about my Nikon cameras in such a short time.
Got lots more coming, next will the N series with built in motor drives
I purchased my Nikkormat in 1972. Has had a Lot of use and still works like new. Only have had the light seals replaced. Recently have added a F and F2.
An excellent presentation on the history of the Nikon cameras. Thank you…
My neighbor had a Nikkormat and my dad had a Nikon and i never knew the real difference. Now i know. Thank you
Mr. Woo and Mr. Ishii. I enjoyed your program, thank you both very much.
Enjoying the Mr. Woo series. This is the secon film I have had the pleasure to watch. Very informative.
Two Nikkormat cameras Mr Woo did not mention, but will certainly know of. The Nikkormat FS was a meter-less version of the FT, and the FT3. The FT3 was only made as a stopgap for a few months in 1977, because the Nikon FM was not ready for market. The FT3 was the first Nikkormat with internal metering linkages like the FM and subsequent Nikons, and accepts modern batteries.
These things are before my time but they certainly look cool. Don't know if I'll ever shoot film again, would like to use the old lens though.
Buy a good quality adaptor for F-mount to whatever your digital camera has.
Nikon used the same mount from 1959 until autofocus was introduced, so there are a lot of manual-focus Nikon lenses available, some of them legendary, like the 105mm f:2.5 fex.
@@hansemannluchter643 I'm adapting Voigtlander and Zeiss F-Mount lens on my Z8. Sold off all my DSLR gear a couple years back before I started traveling in Asia. Once I get settled, I will start looking for some vintage lens again.
Great program. Hope to see the later Nikons like my FE which btw will be buried with me and also more of the other great brands. Cheers from Australia.
Beautiful cameras, just look at the materials were used. And that vintage click. I’m still holding on my Olympus OMD EM cameras. The materials are top notch still and they just work! I can’t part with my Canon 7D mark II to sentimental to me.
Used both and rugged bits of kit.Still have an Ftn.
Battery in the mirror box on the EL.
Great job Mr. Woo. 🎉❤🎉
Thank you
What a great video. Thank you.
RS. Canada
I bought an early Nikkormat FT 15 years ago, and it was in such perfect condition I went back to using my FTn and FT2s. As it had remained in new condition for 44 years (now 59 years), it seemed wrong to submit the camera to normal use. No baseplate or lens mount marks, just as if it had come straight from the box. I have no idea of the backstory, I guess someone bought the Nikkormat, put it in a drawer where it remained until the property was disposed of. It cost £34!
Many thanks for this excellent talk of Mr Woo! I owned a mechanical Nikkormat as a second body to my Nikon F2 in the seventies. I would shoot one body with color slide film and the other one with Tri-X black-and-white. Both great cameras. The only quirk of (at least my) Nikkormat was that when you kept your thumb behind film transport lever to quickly forward to the next exposure, the smallest pressure on the lever would block the shutter release button. Missed some “decisive moments” that way. This would not happen on my F2. Wonder if Mr Woo or other Nik(k)ormat users had the same experience.
Thank you for sharing. I love this series
Can you discuss Pentax mr woo
On the way no problem
Nice to hear the expert pronounce Nikon correctly, instead of Nykon.
its not that deep😭
Nikon USA pronounced it with a long “i” in a RUclips ad for the Z8. I think the company knows how to pronounce it correctly.
Or they just dumbed it down for their appropriate audience.@@zelmoziggy
@@On_The_Piss Why is a long i dumber than a short i?
Nikon have long said they don’t actually care if the US market pronounce it Nykon instead of Nee-kon. It is, after all, a made up word designed for the international market, the company name for decades was always Nippon Kogaku. Japanese pronunciation tends to stress the ‘Nee’ a bit more than the rest of the non-US world, where it tends to be ‘Nick-on’.
9:10 ahh no shutter PING noise. So good. Is there a fix for this if the shutter makes a *PING* noise when shooting on the EL?
Thank you Mr. WOO! HAD NO IDEA SO MANY NIKORMATS MADE! YOU HAVE EDUCATED ME, THANK YOU! SO THERE WAS INTENSE COMPETITION FOR NIKON TO RIVAL LEICA. AND NIKON FINALLY GAVE UP? AND DECIDED TO DESIGN ENTIRELY NEW CONCEPT! LOOK THROUGH THE LENS NOT AT IT! THANK YOU! THE ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED, FOCAL LENGTH TO FILM PLANE CRUCIAL OR OUT OF FOCUS! SO YOU CAN HAVE A BAD F AND NOT KNOW IT! STILL DELIVER MIRKY PICTURE. WHAT GOOD F WITH BAD FILM PLANE? WHAT GOOD LEICA WITH BAD FILM PLANE? MANY THANKS MR. WOO! PLEASE TALK ABOUT 1951 NIKON S NEXT! WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT S . THANK YOU SO MUCH! I GREW UP WITH F. ALLWAYS GOT MEDIOCHER RESULTS. WONDER WHY? OH! YES, IT HAD MIRANDA FOCUS SCREEN! MAYBE WHY DADS OLD PHOTOS NEVER 100% SHARP? MY BEST PHOTOS CAME FROM PENTAX MV. HAD SEIKO SHUTTER! I OWNED TWO FS ONE TIME.LOST THEM. THEN I BOUGHT A NIKON S. FIXED STICKY SHUTTER, STILL PHOTOS NOT 100% SHARP. HELP ME MR.WOO TO UNDERSTAND WHY? IF YOUR ABLE. SORRY TO IMPOSE BUT VERY CURIOUS. THANK YOU FOR ANY FREE HELP.😅
In any reflex camera system the focused image must agree on the viewfinder and the film plane i.e. image focussed in the finder must also be equally sharp in the resultant image. The usual area that can be knocked out of position are the film plane, focusing screen seating , relax mirror. It takes an experience tech with the right tools to rectify the discrepancy. A simple test is to set shutter on B lock shutter open, place the dreaming film or another focussing scree withagniffirer focus the image on this set up and check distance scale on lens. It should agree. Then look thru the viewfinder, the image should be equally sharp. If the film plane images does not agree with the finder image, dome adjustments need to be done. Most camera film plane are die cast so no adjustments needed but some are fitted with a plate as the film plane "Im this case adjustments needed. areas of possible adjustments , reflex mirror, focussing screen seating.
John, i think you found a gem : Mr Woo hold such a wonderful wealth of camera history.
Would you consider doing an approximately 45min length with Mr Woo on camera's history? E,g Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Leica, Olympus. There's arent many energtic narrator likes Mr Woo.
And if you are heading to Penang, i can bridge you a few veteran in film photography for content.
I own F2, F3, F5, FM3a, wonderful gears!
Sure no problem
Any idea what the name of the soft shutter attachment is? It seems like the perfect height
DO the Nikon Shuffle! Nikon user EXCLUSIVELY since 1977!
My NIKKORMAT FTN is 54 years old. The light meter has not work in probably 51-52 years and was repaired once.
Dear Mr. WOO, CAN YOU EXPLANE TO ME HOW A NIKON S. SHUTTER SPEEED DIAL WORKS? ENTIRELY BAFFLED! THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP.
Ot have a copy of the early Nikon s rf camera. I believe the shutter speed dial is the rotating type. Normally you need to cock the shutter first by the film winder, then lift and rotate the dial to select the speed, then fire.
Of course I'm still Pisces-Lion, Dude...
Wasn't the Nikkormat EL promoted to a "real" Nikon, the "EL"?
There were Nikkormat EL and ELW. But EL2 use Nikon brand.
Nikkormat series
Hansemannluchter643
Yes you are right
Nikkormat El
Nikkormat ELW
Nikon EL
Rockartistet
Pentax coming.
@@Photojouralist123 Ah yes, The Beatles-camera...
Nikkormat FT2 + 35mm F1.4 = Leica my balls 🤩
I had a Nikkormat in the Eighties in Kenya. I instantly became a better photographer. Loved my Nikkormat, until it was stolen.
It's Nick-on not N-eye-kon, why can't Americans get this right.