Nikon company as modern Japan's first optical equipment manufacturer was founded in 1917, formerly known as Japan Optical Industry Co., Ltd, mainly for the Japanese Ministry of Defense production of military optical instruments, but also produces cameras and photographic lenses. Funded by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, Japan's Navy at the time of the organization, hoping that the optical illumination device products to achieve localization, so let Mitsubishi called Japan's top optical related enterprises, merger and reorganization of the formation of the full name of the Japan Optical Industry Corporation Nikon.
The main products were military rangefinders, telescopes, and anti-aircraft targeting systems. After the end of World War I, due to the sharp decline in the need for munitions, Nikon, in order to survive, turned to the production of civilian telescopes, microscopes, astronomical telescopes, and other civilian goods manufacturing. 1921 Nikon had intended to join forces with Germany's Carl Zeiss unsuccessfully ......, and then recruited eight technicians from Carl Zeiss, and began to really import the optical technology of research.
In 1921 Nikon had intended to join forces with Carl Zeiss in Germany.
With the help of German technicians, Nikon completed a large lens for aerial photography, and then improved the lens as a prototype to produce a variety of general photographic lenses. 1976, Nikon began the development of semiconductor plotters, and in 1978 Nikon's first semiconductor plotting system, the SR-1, was completed, and in 2003, its semiconductor plotters had the world's largest market share. In 2003, the market share of Nikon's semiconductor plotters was the first in the world. In photography circles, it is said that money can buy a Haber, which is in the sky, and there is only one of it. Apart from this astronomical level, the most sophisticated and expensive lens system on the ground is the lens system in the plotter, whose price is counted in hundreds of millions of yen.
This is where another part of Nikon's history begins, and when you look at Nikon's stock, you'll find that the boom or bust in the semiconductor industry tends to affect its stock. That's because output in this area accounts for nearly 30 percent of Nikon's overall output. And its investment in fine-machine development costs more than 40 percent of the total investment costs, while the camera production side only accounted for about 30 percent of this data was provided in 2002. 1988 April officially named Nikon Nikon Corporation, Nikon is very famous in the field of imaging.