Re: Nikon Museum in Japan

Jerry474 Wrote:
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> I was shooting with two FTNs in Vietnam when the
> 135mm lens was shot off of one by a sniper. If he
> had aimed about two inches closer I would not be
> here. That is the lens that went to the Nikon
> Museum in 1974. Nikon offered me money for it when
> it was on display at the Air Force photo school in
> Denver. I told them I could not take money, but
> they could give money to the Air Force dependent
> scholarship program and they did!
>
> That happened to another photographer in Vietnam,
> Larry Burrows. I think he was a LIFE magazine
> photographer. I think Nikon had his lens also.

Wow! Talk about close calls....yikes! What was left of that lens? Do you have any photos of it? That was back in the days when lenses were built to last.

/Kevin Madore