If one had to pick a single camera which, more than any other, was associated with the nineteen-sixties, Nippon Kogaku’s professional SLR would have to be the choice. Introduced at the very end of the ‘fifties, this was the camera which, on its own, redefined the Japanese photo industry in the eyes of the world. Since the days of the Korean War, there had been a small coterie of photographers who had met and realised the quality of the lenses produced by certain Japanese manufacturers but it was a secret held by the few. During the ‘fifties, the word gradually leaked out that Japanese cameras and lenses ‘had something’. Sales built up gradually in the U.S