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See How Nikon Made Its Lenses 60 Years Ago

See How Nikon Made Its Lenses 60 Years Ago

A split-screen showing a close-up of a gloved hand inspecting a glowing object on the left and a factory floor with workers at desks on the right.

Lens makers these days rely heavily on computers, advanced digital simulations, and extremely sophisticated glass-making and molding techniques. The resulting lenses are impeccably sharp and consistent. But old lenses were great, too, and a classic Nikon manufacturing video from 1966 takes viewers back to a much simpler and very different era of lens manufacturing.

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