In its way, my post about the recent Olympus lecture is part of a series of posts I’ll be doing to run us up to the Expo, focusing on little bits of history and development for some of the big names that’ll be approximately ten feet below my current position in a couple weeks.

The Original Nikon F

Next up is the stalwart Nikon. This year marks the 50th anniversary of their legendary F mount. First introduced for the Nikon F SLR (funny how that works out). Apparently the F mount isn’t just one of the longest lived mounts, it’s also got the honor of having had the first perspective control lens for a 35mm camera (and that introduced in 1961, only two years after the introduction of the F system.)

Today, of course, the F mount remains one of the two biggest mounts on the market (competing with next post’s topic, the EOS mount from Canon). And, the most recent wave of lenses for the F mount have certainly been incredibly well-planned and solid efforts (the new pro zooms and perspective controls certainly spring readly to mind.)

So, stop by in a couple weeks, play with 50 years of mount heritage. Our Nikon rep will love seeing you.