36 Facts About Nikon

Nikon's products include cameras, camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, ophthalmic lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, spotting scopes, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which it is the world's second largest manufacturer.

Nikon is the eighth-largest chip equipment maker as reported in 2017.

Nikon popularized many features in professional SLR photography, such as the modular camera system with interchangeable lenses, viewfinders, motor drives, and data backs; integrated light metering and lens indexing; electronic strobe flashguns instead of expendable flashbulbs; electronic shutter control; evaluative multi-zone "matrix" metering; and built-in motorized film advance.

Once Nikon introduced affordable consumer-level DSLRs such as the Nikon D70 in the mid-2000s, sales of its consumer and professional film cameras fell rapidly, following the general trend in the industry.

In January 2006, Nikon announced it would stop making most of its film camera models and all of its large format lenses, and focus on digital models.

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Nevertheless, Nikon remained the only major camera manufacturer still making film SLR cameras for a long time.

Nikon created some of the first digital SLRs for NASA, used in the Space Shuttle since 1991.

Nikon has a Coolpix line which grew as consumer digital photography became increasingly prevalent through the early 2000s.

Nikon regained much of its reputation among professional and amateur enthusiast photographers as a leading innovator in the field, especially because of the speed, ergonomics, and low-light performance of its latest models.

The mid-range Nikon D90, introduced in 2008, was the first SLR camera to record video.

In reaction to the growing market for Mirrorless cameras, Nikon released their first Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Cameras and a new lens mount in 2011.

In 2018, Nikon officially discontinued the 1 series, after three years without a new camera body.

Also in 2018, Nikon introduced a new mirrorless system in their lineup: the Nikon Z system.

The Z-mount is not only for FX cameras though, as in 2019 Nikon introduced the Z 50 with a DX format sensor, without IBIS but with the compatibility to every Z-mount lens.

In 2021, Nikon released 2 mirrorless cameras, the Z fc and the Z 9.

Contrary to other brands, Nikon never attempted to offer projectors or their accessories.

Nikon has shifted much of its manufacturing facilities to Thailand, with some production in Indonesia.

Nikon constructed a factory in Ayuthaya north of Bangkok in Thailand in 1991.

Range of the products produced at Nikon Thailand include plastic molding, optical parts, painting, printing, metal processing, plating, spherical lens process, aspherical lens process, prism process, electrical and electronic mounting process, silent wave motor and autofocus unit production.

In January 2006 Nikon announced the discontinuation of all but two models of its film cameras, focusing its efforts on the digital camera market.

Nikon has committed to service all the film cameras for a period of ten years after production ceases.

Nikon first started by naming the cameras with a series name.

Nikon introduced the Z-mount in 2018 for their system of digital full-frame and APS-C mirrorless cameras.

Nikon F-mount is a type of interchangeable lens mount developed by Nikon for its 35 mm Single-lens reflex cameras.

Nikon introduced its first scanner, the Nikon LS-3500 with a maximum resolution of 4096 x 6144 pixels, in 1988.

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Nikon announced it would discontinue supporting its Nikon Scan software for the Macintosh as well as for Windows Vista 64-bit.

Between 1994 and 1996 Nikon developed three flatbed scanner models named Scantouch, which couldn't keep up with competitive flatbed products and were hence discontinued to allow Nikon to focus on its dedicated film scanners.

Origins of Nikon go back to 1917 when three Japanese optical manufacturers joined to form Nippon Kogaku KK.

The equipment from Nikon enjoyed high demand from global chipmakers, the Japanese semiconductor companies and other major companies such as Intel, and Nikon was the world's leading producer of semiconductor lithography systems from the 1980s to 2002.

Nikon saw a sharp drop in its market share from less than 40 percent in early 2000s to no more than 20 percent as of 2013.

Nikon has been losing an estimated 17 billion a year in its precision instruments unit.

In 2017, Nikon announced that it would cut nearly 1, 000 jobs mainly in the lithography systems business and halt its development of next-generation equipment.

Nikon is the official co-sponsor of Galatasaray SK Football Team.

In 2014 Nikon sponsored the Copa Sadia do Brasil 2014 and the AFC Champions League.

Nikon was ranked 134th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2012, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory.

The official website of Nikon School offers online photography course since 2016.