Nikon D3S Is Out Of This World

A number of Nikon’s D3S cameras  and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses will go to the “final frontier” when they are taken out to the International Space Station (ISS) to be used for photographic documentation.

Nikon has revealed that NASA has ordered eleven of the high end Digital SLRs to join an existing star fleet of Nikon cameras on board the ISS made up of the D2XS, NIKKOR lenses, and Nikon Speedlights.

Nikon has keen to point out that the cameras will receive no bespoke modifications and that the cameras heading in to the orbit are the exact ones that customers can go buy themselves - currently retailing at around £3700 in the UK.

Since their relationship began in 1971, NASA has captured more than 700,000 images using Nikon equipment carried into space.