Screening from April 21, 2021 (Wed)

Nikon Museum is screening a new movie, “Scientific photography: capturing the wonders around us with the Nikon Z 7”, at the Private Viewing Room from April 21, 2021 (Wed).

This movie is an interview with Mr. Kunio Ichiji, a scientific photographer who photographs familiar phenomena from a scientific viewpoint using the Nikon Z 7 full-frame mirrorless camera. In this interview, he explains his scientific photographs, such as the “milk crown”, rainbow colors in a CD and a bursting water balloon, and talks about his activities, sharing the fun of learning about science through photography.

Kunio Ichiji

Scientific photographer. He has been interested in science and photography since childhood, and started concentrating on photography when he was a college student. The subjects of his photographs cover the entire spectrum of science, including optics, microscopes, instantaneous phenomena, plants, and astral bodies. He also holds experimental workshops etc. to introduce the fun of science to children. He is a vice president of the Society of Scientific Photography.

Filmed using the Nikon Z 7

With the exception of some reference material, this movie was filmed using Nikon Z 7 cameras. Please enjoy this 4K ultra-high definition movie.

Screening from April 13, 2021 (Tue)

Nikon Museum is screening new movies filmed with the NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct on the 70-inch 8K monitor from April 13, 2021 (Tue). The actual equipment used, and cross-sectional model of the Noct lens, are also being exhibited.

Movie 1 “HARP — Healing Harp Tones”

A short 4K movie of a performance on a harp. This movie shows you the high image quality of this lens, with its minimal color bleeding and soft, beautiful bokeh, as well as its ability to capture the textures of the performer's skin, hair and dress.

Movie 2 “8K time-lapse movie of the casual daily scenery”

A time-lapse movie of urban streetscapes, coastlines, Mt. Fuji, night landscapes, etc. It shows you the advantages of the NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct, such as its extremely high resolution that clearly captures the details of buildings, and its point light source reproducibility when filming stars.

About the NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct

The NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct, released in October 2019, is a manual focus lens that achieves extremely high optical performance with its ultra-large f/0.95 aperture. Minimizing optical aberrations means it can provide superior point image reproducibility and high resolution. It symbolizes the superior optical performance of the Nikon Z-mount system.

Screening from March 2, 2021 (Tue)

Nikon Museum is screening a new movie, “Investigating the Structure of the Galaxy and the Nikon 91 cm Reflector Telescope”, in the Private Viewing Room from March 2, 2021.

The 91 cm Reflector Telescope was a photoelectric equatorial reflector telescope that was manufactured by Nikon (then Nippon Kogaku) in 1959, and installed in 1960 at the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (now the Subaru Telescope Okayama Branch Office). Its diameter of 91 cm made it the largest domestically produced telescope in Japan at the time. Today, it has been converted to a wide-field camera, and supports near-infrared observation of the galactic structure.

This movie is an interview with Mr. Kenshi Yanagisawa, who researches stars using the 91 cm Reflector Telescope, and introduces the history and current role of the telescope, which has contributed to astronomical observations for over 60 years.

Filmed using Nikon Z 7 and Z 50

With the exception of some reference material, this movie was filmed using Nikon Z 7 and Z 50 cameras, at 4K UHD image quality.

Dates: September 29, 2020 (Tue) – Late September, 2021

Nikon Museum is exhibiting some mementos and the last photograph of photojournalist Taizo Ichinose until late September 2021.

Exhibited mementos include his Nikon F SLR camera, which was damaged while he was reporting from a battlefield in Vietnam, a press armband, a helmet, boots and others. The exhibited photograph is called “Taizo's last photo”, taken in 1973. It is a photograph of faraway Angkor Wat taken from the window of his boarding house in Cambodia.

These were exhibited at Nikon Museum’s “Taizo Ichinose, the Reality of War, the People Who Live Within the Smoke of Gunpowder” special exhibition held from January 6, 2020 to September 26, 2020, and attracted great interest from visitors. This long-term exhibition has been organized with the cooperation of Ichinose’s family.

With this exhibition, we hope you can understand how Taizo Ichinose lived, running through battlefields hoping to take exclusive, world-class photographs.

Taizo Ichinose

Taizo Ichinose was born in Takeo, Saga, in 1947. He worked as a photojournalist for approximately two years in tumultuous areas such as Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, trying to get worldwide scoops. In November 1973, he wrote a note to his friend with the words “One step on a mine, It's all over,” before travelling to Khmer Rouge militia-controlled Angkor Wat, where he disappeared.