"Nikon Corporation, also understood equally as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, concentrating on optics and also imaging products.
West Structure of Nikon in Nishi-Ōi, Tokyo

Nikon's items include electronic cameras, electronic camera lenses, field glasses, microscopic lens, sensory lenses, measurement tools, rifle scopes, detecting scopes, as well as the steppers utilized in the photolithography steps of semiconductor manufacture, of which it is the globe's second largest supplier. The business is the eighth-largest chip equipment manufacturer as reported in 2017. The companies held by Nikon create the Nikon Team. Among its products are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount cams, large format photography, photo enlargers, as well as other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm film SLR cams, the Nikon D-series of digital SLR cams, the Coolpix collection of portable electronic video cameras, as well as the Nikonos collection of undersea film video cameras. Nikon's major rivals in camera as well as lens manufacturing include Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, and also Olympus.

Founded on July 25, 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, the business was renamed to Nikon Corporation, after its electronic cameras, in 1988. Nikon belongs to the Mitsubishi group of firms."