"Nikon Firm, likewise known just as Nikon, is a Japanese multinational company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, concentrating on optics as well as imaging items.
West Building of Nikon in Nishi-Ōi, Tokyo

Nikon's products include video cameras, electronic camera lenses, field glasses, microscopes, sensory lenses, measurement tools, rifle scopes, detecting ranges, as well as the steppers made use of in the photolithography steps of semiconductor construction, of which it is the globe's second biggest maker. The firm is the eighth-largest chip equipment manufacturer as reported in 2017. The companies held by Nikon develop the Nikon Team. Amongst its items are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount cameras, huge layout photography, photo enlargers, and also other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm movie SLR video cameras, the Nikon D-series of digital SLR video cameras, the Coolpix collection of compact electronic cameras, and the Nikonos collection of undersea movie electronic cameras. Nikon's major rivals in camera and lens production consist of Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, and also Olympus.

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