{"id":178,"date":"1998-11-22T13:29:57","date_gmt":"1998-11-22T13:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:37:31","slug":"nikon-pronia-factory-tour-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/nikon-pronia-factory-tour-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon Pronia Factory Tour &#8211; Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;d like cameras still to be made in the UK, I was always grateful when we were invited on a press trip to the factory of those made abroad, especially when Nikon invited me to Thailand to see the production of the APS camera the Nikon Pronia\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-178 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/nikon-pronia-factory-tour-thailand\/nikon-thailand-ticket\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998\/11\/nikon-thailand-ticket-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/nikon-pronia-factory-tour-thailand\/nikon-thailand-invite\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998\/11\/nikon-thailand-invite-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/nikon-pronia-factory-tour-thailand\/royal-orchid\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998\/11\/royal-orchid-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We flew Thai Airways TG911, Royal Executive Class\u00a0 from Heathrow to Bangkok. I sat next to Elaine in Seat 16K. The flight had individual movie players. I can&#8217;t remember what I watched. We stopped in the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel<\/p>\n<p>Nikon delivered a feature packed schedule over our five day trip included a two hour factory trip to see the Nikon Pronia being made. This was an SLR using APS film, and it was amazing to see how every single step of\u00a0 the assembly process was hand done.<\/p>\n<p>Events<br \/>\nRoyal River Hotel International Buffet<br \/>\nTour of Nikon Thailand Corp Production facilities in Ayuthhaya<br \/>\nExpress Boat Choa River to Phra A Thit pier<br \/>\nTuk Tuks to Grand Palace<br \/>\nEmerald Buddha Temple<br \/>\nThai Cultural evening Rose Garden Nakorn Pathom,<br \/>\nFestival of the season \u201cLoy Krathong\u201d village possession<\/p>\n<p>Nikon Hosts<br \/>\nSimon Coleman, Elaine Swift<\/p>\n<p>Press Attending<br \/>\nPeter Bargh, Dan Lezano, Damien Demolder\u00a0 , Neil Whitford, Shirley Kilpatrick, Raul Golden<\/p>\n<p>On this trip I learned that girls can do incredible things with ping pong balls, Elephants are not just in the wild, mosquitoes can create huge bites, certain men are more attractive than certain women, not to go in a tuk tuk to the jewelery show rooms, Thai food can be incredible, Simon had a bizarre choice of swimming trunks and the Nikon Pronia was a totally hand assembled camera.<\/p>\n<p>We were each given a Nikon Pronia which, at the time, was the best APS camera going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;d like cameras still to be made in the UK, I was always grateful when we were invited on a press trip to the factory of those made abroad, especially when Nikon invited me to Thailand to see the production of the APS camera the Nikon Pronia We flew Thai Airways TG911, Royal Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,12],"tags":[179,173,175,176,177,35,178,174,180,172],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-events","category-travel","tag-ayuthhaya","tag-bangkok","tag-emerald-buddha-temple","tag-loy-krathong","tag-nakorn-pathom","tag-nikon","tag-rose-garden","tag-royal-orchid","tag-sheraton","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}