"Nikon Firm, additionally understood equally as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on optics and also imaging items.
West Building of Nikon in Nishi-Ōi, Tokyo

Nikon's items consist of cams, electronic camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, ophthalmic lenses, measurement instruments, rifle ranges, identifying scopes, as well as the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor manufacture, of which it is the globe's second largest manufacturer. The firm is the eighth-largest chip tools manufacturer as reported in 2017. The companies held by Nikon form the Nikon Team. Among its items are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount electronic cameras, big style photography, photo enlargers, as well as various other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm movie SLR cams, the Nikon D-series of digital SLR cams, the Coolpix series of compact electronic cameras, and also the Nikonos series of undersea movie cams. Nikon's main competitors in camera and also lens manufacturing consist of Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, and also Olympus.

Founded on July 25, 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, the company was relabelled to Nikon Corporation, after its cams, in 1988. Nikon is a member of the Mitsubishi team of firms."