Nikon Corporation is one of the major companies of the Mitsubishi Group, a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and specializing in optics and imaging.

Nippon Kogaku K.K., or Japanese Optical Society (afterwards became known as Nikon Corporation) was formed at July 25, 1917 as a result of merging of three firms: Tokyo Keiki Seisaku-sho's optical division, Iwaki Glass Seisaku-sho и Fujii Lens Seizo-sho. The new company was aimed at manufacturing high-quality optics for Imperial Japanese Navy. And up to 1945 it actually was their main goal that determined the company’s philosophy and traditions. The first president of Nippon Kogaku was Yoshihira Wada.

Apart from military equipment the company produced microscopes, telescopes and other measuring instruments for industry and science. From 1932 they started serial production of Nikkor lenses for photo cameras. It’s an interesting fact that all Canon cameras, launched between 1937 and 1947 were equipped with lenses produced by Nikon!

After the WW II Nippon Kogaku K.K. manufactured its own camera –a rangefinder Nikon 1 – and stopped manufacturing lenses for Canon. The new camera appeared already Nikon-branded.

Nikon D300s DSLR Camera

What's new: The camera gained another review, this time at Photoreview.com.au! Nikon D300S is new Nikon's DSLR announced together with the D3000 model. It is the successor to popular D300 and spots DX-format 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, 51-point autofocus system and EXPEED image processor in a compact body. The D300S’s improvements over its predecessor are HD movie capability, a faster frame advance rate of (7fps) and dual CF and SD memory card slots. The EXPEED image processing syst ...

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