There are certain confusion as with the total number of the quantity produced. As
earlier, Nikon's original
advertisement was portraying
only 2000 units will be produced. Obviously, some local collectors in Japan were
not too happy when realized there were more unconfirmed units being produced. Eventually,
Nikon officially clarified with the total exact numbers being produced, decisively
and bravely apologized for created such confusion.
If we used the advertised quantity as an official reference, the F5 anniversary model
should be as followed:
Domestic version: 2000
Foreign version: 1000
The advertisement that ran
in Japanese quoted
(Translated by Hiura Shinsaku):
"Apology and correction: We announced to domestic media that we planned to market
the 2000 (limited) of "Nikon F5 - Nikon camera 50th anniversary model"
in April 21, 1998. At that time, we did not refer to the fact that the planned number
is only for domestic market in Japan and the number of the foreign model has not
being decided. Please let us apologize about the incorrect announcement and we hereby
correcting the earlier announced quantity of the camera body as"Domestic: 2000
(limited)" and "Foreign: 1000 (limited)".
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