"Nikon Company, additionally understood just as Nikon, is a Japanese international company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging items.
West Structure of Nikon in Nishi-Ōi, Tokyo

Nikon's products include cams, cam lenses, binoculars, microscopes, sensory lenses, measurement tools, rifle ranges, finding ranges, and also the steppers used in the photolithography actions of semiconductor fabrication, of which it is the globe's second largest maker. The company is the eighth-largest chip equipment maker as reported in 2017. The firms held by Nikon form the Nikon Group. Among its items are Nikkor imaging lenses (for F-mount video cameras, big style photography, photo enlargers, and also other applications), the Nikon F-series of 35 mm film SLR electronic cameras, the Nikon D-series of electronic SLR video cameras, the Coolpix series of compact digital cameras, and the Nikonos collection of underwater movie cameras. Nikon's main rivals in camera and also lens manufacturing consist of Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, as well as Olympus.

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