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I suspect it might be easier to use some of your winning s to buy a set of VR lenses!
I like the idea of a Nikon F6(F7) with updated focus technology and the capability to use the newer lenses with the magnetic diaphragm aperture design.
How about IBIS technology applied to the film???
It’s would be fairly easy to grasp the film firmly in a frame and move that around, using films ability to bend. We are talking very small movements after all.
Also sucking or pressing film into a gentle curve under a lens element would allow smaller, simpler and better wides.
Film transport would of course need to be completely different. The clamping frame would take over all of the “keeping flat” duties.Left and right, yes, but up and down would cause buckling, especially because the goal of the film transport system is to hold the film tight.
It did, it was one of those craziest gimmicks of all time. Belongs in the technological hall of shame. Of course they ran tests to show how much flatter the film plane was, and man, what a difference did that make in final photographic results. I never figured how anyone managed without it ... nor since. I wanted to buy one, but they never offered a free vacuum cleaner with it. Wanted to keep a scene dust free too, so when image was projected onto that sucked in film plane, no external factors would have affected resolved detail.Didnt the Contax RTS III have a vacuum system to hold the film flat? That should work w ibis.
Rather than complete cameras I would make a commitment to keep all of the parts necessary to keep the Nikon F working available, including manufacturing those parts that become otherwise unavailable. The one all new component would be repro prism finders in both black and chrome. There are a lot more otherwise functional F's out there than unmetered prism finders.
And of course Nikon will not come after your for patent and copyright infringements, correct?
What is the expiration time-line on a patent? 20 years? Hmm, I may introduce a knock off Nikon F100.
I'll call it the F Optical Full Finder 100.
Or F OFF 100 for short.
I believe it is more like 75 years, depending on the country.
Just looked it up https://www.uspto.gov/patents
- 20 years.
- In 1994 the US signed the Uruguay Round Agreements Act changed the date from which the term was measured. Because the term was measured from the filing date of the application and not the grant date of the patent, Congress amended 35 U.S.C. § 154 to provide for applications filed after June 7, 1995 that the term of a patent begins on the date that the patent issues and ends on the date that is twenty years from the date on which the application was filed in the U.S. or, if, the application contained a specific reference to an earlier filed application or applications under 35 USC 120, 121 or 365(c), twenty years from the filing date of the earliest of such application. In addition, 35 U.S.C. 154 was amended to provide term extension if the original patent was delayed due to secrecy orders, interferences, or appellate review periods.
Hey, we're talking big money here. Plenty for a team of good patent attorneys.And of course Nikon will not come after your for patent and copyright infringements, correct?
And of course Nikon will not come after your for patent and copyright infringements, correct?
Hey, we're talking big money here. Plenty for a team of good patent attorneys.
The F mount is no longer covered by 1951 patients, I forget the model but there was a late model Russain SLR with F mount, and a few years ago a rumor of a Russian DSLR with a MF F mount in development. Likely just a fable. Other dead mounts that could be used M42 and K, Minolta MD, Canon FD, or Konica AR, Petri breech, or Exacta/Topcon mount.
I believe it is more like 75 years, depending on the country.
You're thinking of copyright, which lasts a long time. As others said, patents are short, typically 20 years. A camera itself isn't an object that can be copyrighted (although its manual or its firmware computer code could be). And trademark registration such as the Nikon name/logo can be renewed. If somebody wanted to knock off a Nikon F, setting aside the manufacturing difficulty, they could do so legally (they could knock off an F100 if they didn't copy the firmware), but they couldn't put "Nikon" on the front obviously.
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knock 3d printed mess of a mamiya press and rb67. Same idea as what is being talked about here
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