"Nikon Corporation, likewise understood just as Nikon, is a Japanese international firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on optics as well as imaging products.
West Structure of Nikon in Nishi-Ōi, Tokyo

Nikon's products include cameras, electronic camera lenses, field glasses, microscopic lens, ocular lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, finding extents, as well as the steppers utilized in the photolithography steps of semiconductor manufacture, of which it is the world's second biggest supplier. The business is the eighth-largest chip devices maker as reported in 2017. The firms held by Nikon form the Nikon Team. Amongst its items are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount cameras, big format photography, photo enlargers, and also various other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm film SLR video cameras, the Nikon D-series of electronic SLR video cameras, the Coolpix collection of portable digital video cameras, and also the Nikonos collection of undersea movie electronic cameras. Nikon's main rivals in camera as well as lens manufacturing include Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, as well as Olympus.

Founded on July 25, 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, the company was renamed to Nikon Company, after its cams, in 1988. Nikon belongs to the Mitsubishi group of business."