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| Product type | Camera lenses Industrial optics Enlarger lenses Microscope objectives |
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| Owner | Nikon Corporation |
| Country | Japan |
| Introduced | 1932 |
| Markets | Worldwide |
| Website | www.nikkor.com |
Nikkor is the brand of lenses produced by Nikon Corporation, including camera lenses for the Nikon F-mount and more recently, for the Nikon Z line of mirrorless cameras.
The Nikkor brand was introduced in 1932, a Westernised rendering of an earlier version Nikkō (日光), an abbreviation of the company's original full name Nippon Kōgaku ("Japan Optics"; 日本光学工業株式会社).[1] (Nikkō also means "sunlight" and is the name of a Japanese town.) In 1933, Nikon marketed its first camera lens under the Nikkor brand name, the "Aero-NIKKOR," for aerial photography.[1]
Nikon originally reserved the Nikkor designation for its highest-quality imaging optics, but in recent history almost all Nikon lenses are so branded.
Notable Nikkor branded optics have included:
- F-mount lenses for 35mm SLR and DSLR photography (for a full list see Nikon F-mount).
- Z-mount lenses for Nikon mirrorless cameras.
- 1-mount lenses for Nikon 1 series cameras.
- Lenses for Zenza Bronica and Plaubel Makina medium format cameras.
- Lenses for Nikon S-mount and Leica rangefinder cameras, as well as very early Canon cameras.
- Amphibious lenses for Nikonos underwater cameras.
- Lenses for large format photography.
- EL-Nikkor photographic enlarger lenses.
- Microscope objectives.
- Industrial lenses, including lenses in support of the Japanese war effort during World War II.
- ^ a b The 75th Anniversary of NIKKOR Lenses Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine