Nikon Corporation (Nikon, Nikon Corp.) is a Japanese company specializing in optical and image fields. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measuring devices. The company was founded in 1917 as Nihon (Nippon) Kōgaku Kōgyō (日本 光學 工業 株式會社) in Tokyo, Japan; then changed its name to (株式会社 ニ コ ン), in the name of the camera, in 1988. In 2002, he had 14,000 workers. Nikon is one of the Mitsubishi companies.
Its famous products are Nikkor camera lenses, Nikonos water cameras, Nikon F professional camera series, and Nikon D-series digital cameras.
Nikon's main rivals include Canon, Minolta, Leica, Pentax and Olympus.
