Nikon Model S ( standard) with Nikkor-HC 5cm F2 lens. Very clean set

The Nikon was the first camera introduced by the optical manufacturer Nippon Kogaku KK.  It is a 35mm rangefinder camera, in retrospect known as the Nikon I. The original design was approved by September 1946, and the camera was released in March 1948. At first, it was sold locally, and it did not come to the attention of the western media until 1950, when photographers from the Life magazine were shown photographs taken with these cameras. The lenses draw special attention, like the Nikkor-P.C 1:2 f=8.5cm. A demand to fit Nikkors to the reporters’ Leicas were immediately met at the factory in Tokyo, and soon the word spread about these Japanese lenses which were just as good as, or possibly better than their German counterparts.  The camera design was strongly inspired by the German Contax and Leica cameras. After careful studies of these, Nippon Kogaku had decided to base their camera on the Contax, but substitute the complicated shutter design for the cloth focal plane shutter of the Leica, these being considered the best features from either camera.

Maker: Nippon Kogagu Tokio.

Format: 24x36mm

Shutter type: Horizontal-travel-focal-plane-shutter.

Shutter-speeds: T-B-1-1/500 sec.

Viewfinder : Reversed Galilean type. Magnification 0,6x. Frame coverage: 85%

Film winding: By a knob on the right top side.

Flash sync: Yes

Dimensions : 137x79x70mm

Weight: 780 gram with lens.