I have no idea why it's called the Dark Side of Photography, but I have this cheap Darth Vader mask from a Halloween party over a decade ago, which I found earlier this evening while throwing old clutter away. Yeah, I'm bored of watching the Olympics.
I have no idea why it's called the Dark Side of Photography, but I have this cheap Darth Vader mask from a Halloween party over a decade ago, which I found earlier this evening while throwing old clutter away. Yeah, I'm bored of watching the Olympics.
Hey Vader
I am sure Vader’s Mom is proud of this photo, bet Vader is wearing his whitey tighties and tube socks; not so menacing without the chest plate. LMAO
Chris Beaumont wrote:
I think it's more a 'Star Wars' reference, more people shoot Canon than Nikon, so Nikon have become 'the other lot' or 'the enemy'.
Ben Horne wrote:
The dark side is whatever side you're not on. If you have canon, and you switch to Nikon, you are switching to the dark side. If you have Nikon, and you switch to Canon, you are switching to the dark side.
ha, this is a funny thread... as many have noted, it's clearly a reference to star wars, whereby canon users are good and nikon users are evil. in this scenario, i believe ken rockwell represents the emperor and ashton kucher is darth vader.
"Admiral, Nikon's D3s is second to none in high iso image quality, and with the new 24 1.4 and the possibility of a 35 1.4 and a new 85 1.4 on the way, maybe we should consider switching to Nikon as well"
elfanucchi wrote:
If you really want to know the truth ... its an interesting story that few "Photographers" know ...
This is based on my inside Nikon customer and exec level interchange in 1991 while visiting them at their Yokohama and other plants.
I purchased very expensive semiconductor equipment from Nikon {Semiconductor Equipment Division} for Motorola Inc.
In short - they outsourced all non semiconductor equipment manufacture {cameras, microscopes, sunglasses, etc} at the request of Intel.
Nikon agreed to please their #1 customer and the fact they just could not meet all Intel equipment demand. Their factories were converted to all semiconductor equipment manufacture startin in late 80's.
Sony was the biggest maker of Nikon cameras then although Nikon kept strict control of camera design. Nikon did not make cameras any longer.
There were a few China Companies also.
They supplied 100 % of Intel's Microelectronics Steppers and Scanners at that time and it was only the semiconductor boom that compelled them.
The Yokohama site I visited most was a former camera manufacture factory.
They threw great customer parties in Tokyo Ginza bars and girls galore .
It was high fast and wild times then.
The VP of engineering at Yokohama said photo and cameras were a saturated bizz and Semiconductors were the big $ future.
But ... in the late 90's Semiconductors went bust as well as Nikon's Electon Beam "Scalpel" project. The loss shocked the company and they realized cameras now digital could be a boom biz - thus they started back in competive photo in the 21st century.
It is boom to bust to boom again after they recouped their losses.
The 90's were very dark for Nikon and many were laid off and factories closed - now its reorganized differently and more diverse - they almost lost it all cause of greed. They took major write-offs in 99, 01 and now are back in positive profit.
See Nikon annual reports from 1998 to 2002 for more info. ...Show more →
