Nikon's year 2000 reissue of its 1950's vintage rangefinder body with the updated and finest 50mm(5cm) F1.4 ever made for its rangefinder bodies. The set was first offered with a chrome S3 body and all black lens October 2000 and with a black painted body and a black lens June 2002. The body reissue had precious few revisions (as true to the original S3 as practicable) and the lens is a tweaked (7/5) formula "Olympic" with updated advanced NIC anti-reflective coatings.

To our knowledge, Nikon never publicly released any lens diagrams of the much celebrated original 7/5 50mm F1.4 formulation. However there is information to suggest that the lens formula bore a striking resemblance to the to the 7/6 5.8cm F1.4 "F" lens shown below :

The darker line in what would appear to be the third group is actually an un-cemented pair split only by a very small distance.

In the 7/5 50mm F1.4 RNFDR the third group is a cemented pair that is not split (denoted by the darker line) into two separate elements as in the 7/6 5.8cm "F" formulation. The author acknowledges and thanks Erwin Puts for the fruitful communications that have led to this information.

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As much as this set is a celebration of Nikon's commercial and technical successes over the decades dating from its rangefinder triumphs; this celebration was far from a success since, though each set cost Nikon in excess of $6000 to produce; Nikon realized well less than that and sales in the after market dropped to less than half of the issue price.