"Nikon Company, likewise recognized equally as Nikon, is a Japanese international firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, concentrating on optics and also imaging products.
West Building of Nikon in Nishi-Ōi, Tokyo

Nikon's items consist of electronic cameras, electronic camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, sensory lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, detecting ranges, and the steppers utilized in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which it is the globe's second biggest maker. The business is the eighth-largest chip equipment maker as reported in 2017. The companies held by Nikon create the Nikon Group. Amongst its items are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount video cameras, huge style photography, photographic enlargers, as well as various other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm movie SLR electronic cameras, the Nikon D-series of electronic SLR video cameras, the Coolpix collection of small digital video cameras, and also the Nikonos collection of undersea film video cameras. Nikon's primary rivals in camera as well as lens production consist of Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, as well as Olympus.

Based on July 25, 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, the firm was relabelled to Nikon Company, after its video cameras, in 1988. Nikon belongs to the Mitsubishi group of firms."