PC sync socket

[Sirius Glass]

The JCII sticker was a marketing ploy the organisation didn't test every camera but only 1 in a very large batch, but the stickers were put on all of them. The main reason they did it was to confirm it wasn't a "knock off" of a German product and didn't infringe copyright law.

I believe the stickers were an indication that the camera or lens was not a black market or gray market item.

 

[wiltw]

The JCII sticker was a marketing ploy the organisation didn't test every camera but only 1 in a very large batch, but the stickers were put on all of them. The main reason they did it was to confirm it wasn't a "knock off" of a German product and didn't infringe copyright law.

Regardless of the true nature of the JCII sticker, the presence/absence is, for some buyers, yet another characteristic of a unit 'as it came from the factory', for whatever that might or might not alter the 'value' of that unit...although a beat up camera with JCII sticker would have zero intrinsic increase in value for me vs. one missing that sticker!

The web says of the JCII sticker, "These stickers were attached to camera products that satisfied minimal quality requirements and were not blatant copies of German camera products of the time. The sticker does not mean that the individual item was tested, only that its model had been deemed to be usable and not a knockoff. At that time, goods manufactured in Japan were regarded abroad, often with good reason, as cheap trash or (externally at least) exact copies of patented items made in other countries, and this sticker was an effort by Japanese companies and government to improve their image."

 

[Sirius Glass]

I found that the JCII sticker would over time start to slip around or slip off the equipment. It was more of a nuisance to pick off and clean up the surface dirt it left.

 

[benjiboy]

Many people who bought Japanese cameras from the 1950s to the 1980s were labouring under the misapprehension that their new camera had been inspected and tested by the J.C.I.I in the days when I used to sell cameras for a living because of the stickers.
I can't recall clearly but I don't remember Nikon equipment ever having the stickers on.

 

[Peltigera]

I asked because when I look for used cameras very few have the cap yet I didn't lose any of my cap. I had to buy caps to put on used cameras I bought that didn't have them.

None of the cameras that I have bought new have had PC socket caps and I rather think that most cameras never had PC socket caps.

 

[Sirius Glass]

None of the cameras that I have bought new have had PC socket caps and I rather think that most cameras never had PC socket caps.

I agree. I sold cameras for a while and I have never seen a PC socket cap.

 

[Chan Tran]

I agree. I sold cameras for a while and I have never seen a PC socket cap.

All of the Nikon I ever bought new have a cap for the PC socket that includes the F2AS, F3HP and F5 and also the Df. The Pentax KX has the 2 caps on the 2 sync sockets too. Others I bought used and some did have the caps but most the cap is missing.

 

[Sirius Glass]

All of the Nikon I ever bought new have a cap for the PC socket that includes the F2AS, F3HP and F5 and also the Df. The Pentax KX has the 2 caps on the 2 sync sockets too. Others I bought used and some did have the caps but most the cap is missing.

I have none of those cameras.

 

[Chan Tran]

I have none of those cameras.

Even though the F3HP and the F5 didn't come with a neck strap they do come with the PC connector cap.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Even though the F3HP and the F5 didn't come with a neck strap they do come with the PC connector cap.

I would rather have the neck strap. Just as I would prefer to have a broiled steak with a little Cognac dripped on than a MacDonald Fish Sandwich.