Nikkor Club Kaihō

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Nikkor Club Kaihō (Bulletin/Newsletter) ニッコールクラブ会報

1953-present
Quarterly
Publisher: Nikkor Club, Tokyo
Editor: Nikkor Club Editorial Office.

In the mid-1950s, all the large camera manufacturers launched PR magazines, providing their users with product information, contests and also functioned as a laboratory for new photography.
NIKKOR Club was founded in 1952 by then-Nippon Kogaku (later Nikon) president Nagaoka Masao, and the photographers Miki Jun, Kimura Ihei, Domon Ken and Kamekura Yusaku, with the intent of giving lens-lovers a means of mutual friendship and international exchange. The idea was to do something for the increasing number of Nikkor lens users. Due to their outstanding quality, in the 1950s Nikkor lenses were also used bij other camera manufacturers - e.g. Canon. (After Miki Jun showed in 1950 some prints he made with Nikkor optics to LIFE photographer David Douglas Duncan, DDD was very impressed by the sharpness and image quality of these lenses and fitted his Leica’s with Nikkor lenses. Soon most American magazine photographers switched to Nikkor lenses and Nikon camera’s )
In 1953 the first issue was published. Other camera manufacturers followed with their own magazines; Rokkor by Chiyoda Kōgaku Seikō ( later Minolta Camera, 1955-1988), Olympus Photography by Olympus Kōgaku Kōgyō ( 1956-2006), Canon Circle by Canon Camera (renamed Canon Photo Circle, 1959-present), Pentax Family by Asahi Kōgaku Kōgyo ( later Pentax), Sakura Family (1961-1975)
The Nikkor Club's exclusive newsletter, packed with information and reading material on photography and cameras, is delivered four times a year on a seasonal basis. The magazine also features winning entries from members-only photo contests. The magazine is also an enjoyable photo collection of great works.

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Nikkor Club 1975 summer no. 73
Cover: Miki Jun
Editor: Nikkor Club Editorial Office. ( Ina Nobuo )
Chairman: Miki Jun. Advisers: Ina Nobuo, Nishiyama Kiyoshi, Domon Ken, Kamekura Yusaku.
Permanent Managing Directors of Nikkor Club: Inamura Takamasa, Sato Akira, Narahara Ikko, Hosoe Eikoh. Directors: Yokosuka Noriaki, Morinaga Jun.
29,7 x 21 cm
70 pages, gravure printing

Selection of content:
B&W by Nikkor Club Members, Yamamoto Ryuzu, Flight, 5 pages / B&W by Master Photographers, Tomatsu Shōmei, Pencil of the Sun-Myako Island, 8 pages / Color by Master Photographers, Inamura Takamasa, The Green Room, 3 pages / In Search of Sea Flowers, Hirose Takao, 3 pages / From the Nikon Salon Exhibit / Salon de Nikkor B&W Prizewinning Photos / Salon de Nikkor Color Prizewinning Photos / Critique on Salon the Nikkor Prizewinning Photos / New Products; the Nikomat FT2 / Essays / NC ( Nikkor Club) News/ etc

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Tomatsu Shōmei, Pencil of the Sun-Myako Island, 8 pages.

(Left page: Yamamoto Ryuzu, Flight)

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Nikkor Club 1976 - autumn no. 78
Cover: Inamura Takamasa
Editor: Nikkor Club Editorial Office. ( Ina Nobuo )
Chairman: Miki Jun. Advisers: Ina Nobuo, Nishiyama Kiyoshi, Domon Ken, Kamekura Yusaku.
Permanent Managing Directors of Nikkor Club: Inamura Takamasa, Sato Akira, Narahara Ikko, Hosoe Eikoh, Mihori Ieyoshi. Directors: Yokosuka Noriaki, Morinaga Jun.
29,7 x 21 cm
70 pages, gravure printing

Selection of content:
B&W by Master Photographers, Araki Nobuyoshi, Hiroko’s 21st summer 4 pages / Yokosuka Noriaki, The Sea, 7 pages / Roundtable forum / Color by Master Photographer, Matsumoto Norihiko, An invitation to the stage, 6 pages / From the Nikon Salon Exhibit; Sasamoto Shigehiro, Views of Tokyo, 4 pages b&w/ Salon de Nikkor B&W Prizewinning Photos / Salon de Nikkor Color Prizewinning Photos / Critique on Salon the Nikkor Prizewinning Photos / New Products; Nikon radio control set MW1, Nikon Modulate remote control set ML-1 / Essays / NC ( Nikkor Club) News/ etc

Araki Nobuyoshi, Hiroko’s 21st summer, 4 pages.

Right page: Yokosuka Noriaki, The Sea

Nikkor Club Junior

Quarterly
Editor: Nikkor Club Junior Newsletter Editorial Committee
21 x 29,7 oblong, 15 pages

Nikkor Club Junior is a kind of Nikkor Club “light”
The chairman, advisors and directors are almost the same photographers as in Nikkor Club. Articles are more a ‘how to’ and the contributing work of master photographers, as in Nikkor Club, is missing. Junior Salon ( contests ) is more or less the same as in the Nikkor Club magazines.

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Nikkor Club Junior 1976 Spring no. 22
Cover: Narahara Ikko

Selection of content:
Narahara Ikko, Multiple exposure photography, 2 pages / Imai Hisae, my thoughts on composite photography, 2 pages / Nakamura Yukata, Multiple exposure photography and composite photography, 3 pages / Junior Salon, works reviewed by Miki Jun, Inamura Takamasa, Sato Akira, Narahara Ikko, Hosoe Eikoh and Morinaga Jun.6 pages

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Narahara Ikko, Multiple exposure photography.

On the far right page: Imai Hisae, my thoughts on composite photography.

Left page: Imai Hisae, my thoughts on composite photography.

Right page: Nakamura Yukata, Multiple exposure photography and composite photography.

Junior Salon.