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<a href="http://hot-roll.com/article/History-of-Nikon-cameras/" target="_blank">Get Paid to Submit Article like "History of Nikon cameras"</a><br /><br />In the 50s, when Nikon entered the camera world, nobody gave it a look. Now the trend has been changed as these days, its digital cameras are well known everywhere. The company was initially skeptical and started small, however always dreamed to make it big one day and did what exactly it had envisioned. <br /> <br /> Nikon, among the late starters in the camera world, took the world by storm shortly after the end of the World War II by way of the launch of the Nikon I in the year 1948. The company took almost three years to build up this camera. The Nikon I had not gone down well with its users in the initial days as it was having a lot of problems. The incurring problem was resolved by the launch of another model called the Nikon M which was rectified and presented as an enhanced version of the first one. The second launch of the 1949 got some rave remarks from the critics and even was well accepted by the market.<br /> <br /> For the period of the 1950's, a German make Leica was leading the race with the best 35 mm rangefinder cameras. Nikon, in its way to surpass Leica, came up charging with the Nikon SP in 1957, which was rated to be one of the best Nikon cameras to be had at that time. The success of SP not offered it the desired contentment and it continued to innovate and in the process, launched the Nikon F single lens reflex (SLR) camera in 1959. Launching of the Nikon F set the typical standard for SLR's and eventually, turned out to be the hot favorite of photo journalists and professional photographers at that time. Now Nikon was ahead with it and managed to go beyond Leica and became the market leader in this category.<br /> <br /> Nikon created another landmark in 1980. The landmark came in the form of F3 and it was designed be taken in use by NASA astronauts in outer space expeditions. For this grand work, it was almost must that the camera was needed to be big enough so that astronauts wearing bulky gloves could easily handle it. At the very same time, it had to be burly enough to work flawlessly in zero gravity situations and endure the strong rays of the Sun. Seeing the great job done by Nikon, NASA, glad at the moment, urged to design even more cameras for itself in the coming years from the company.<br /> <br /> For the duration of the 1990s, Nikon kept coming with better and more superior SLR cameras. Later, it offered to the world the first ever underwater auto focus SLR camera in the year 1992 in the form of the NIKONOS RS. To take full command over the market, it joined hands with Fuji Films and launched the E2/E2S digital still cameras in 1995. Nikon set its foot in the digital arena in the year 1997 by way of the launch of its first digital camera, the COOLPIX100.<br /> <br>