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The Nikon M was sold in the PXs, and United States sales resumed, but the camera received little attention in the western media until the fall of 1950, when photographers from the Life magazine began reporting on the Nikkor lenses' sharpness. Therefore Nippon Kogaku settled for an intermediate frame format of 24 × 34mm, but did change the gearing to increase the number of perforations per image to the standard 8 (instead of 7 for the 24 x 32), This was acceptable to the export market as slides, although still slightly narrower, were now always cut between frames.
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The Nikon's body casting and shutter did not permit increasing the format to a full 24 x 36mm.
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Introduced in the autumn of 1949, this model can be recognized by the M preceding the body number. Effectively cut off from the two most important markets for their new camera, Nippon Kogaku redesigned the camera's film gate, pressure plate and gearing in August 1949. In addition, the Central Purchasing Office (CPO) that controlled the sales of cameras to the military exchange stores in Japan decided that they would not approve cameras for sale with that format either. It did not correspond to the automatic slide cutting machines being used in the US, and the images might be sliced in the middle. However, the United States importers, Overseas Finance and Trading Company, objected to this non-standard format.
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The factory, encouraged by the Japanese government, chose the 24 × 32mm frame size pioneered by Chiyoda Kogaku-known as the Nippon format-which yielded more frames per length of film, and matched more closely the common paper sizes. However, both the shutter and rangefinder mechanism followed the Leica's, resulting in a simpler, easier to manufacture design. Because it uses a derivative of the Zeiss' Contax camera mount, the Nikon camera bears a strong external resemblance to that camera. Production grew slowly over the next year, with all but a few of the cameras being sold to overseas markets including the United States. Sales began in September 1948 with a shipment of 100 cameras to Hong Kong. After over a year of development and testing, manufacture began in March 1948. The original design was approved by September 1946. It is a 35mm rangefinder camera, now known as the Nikon I. The Nikon was the first camera introduced by the optical manufacturer Nippon Kogaku K.K.