Nikon is a Japan based website. This company started in the year 1917. It belongs to the Mitsubishi Group of companies. Nikon mainly concentrates in imaging and optics. It produces products like binoculars, cameras, measurement instruments, microscopes and steppers that are utilized in photolithography.

Nikon deals in a huge variety of products, a few eminent ones are ‘Nikonos which are a range of cameras which can be used underwater, imaging lens called Nikkor, Nikon F - series 135 film SLR Cameras, Photographic Enlargers and Nikon D – series of Digital SLR Cameras’. It is the second biggest company in the world among the manufactures of Steppers. Nikon faces competition from Olympus, Canon, Fujifilm, Sony, Pentax, Kodak, Casio and Panasonic. The ‘Nikon Global Gateway’ which is the official website of the company offers a huge range of Nikon goods.

Some of the products which are sold by the website are as follows: cameras like ‘film SLR cameras with auto focus like, Nikon F3 being the first launched in the year 1983 and the latest Nikon F6 in the year 2004, film APS SLR cameras like, Nikon Pronea 600i launched in the year 1996 and the other one being Nikon Pronea S in the year 1997, film SLR cameras with manual focus like, Nikon F series being the first in this category and the latest Nikon FM3A in the year 2001, digital compact cameras in a wide range called the Nikon Coolpix Series, rangefinder cameras like, Nikon I, the first one launched in 1948 and the latest Nikonos which is a series of underwater cameras, digital single lens reflex cameras, lens for F-mount cameras, photo optics, electronic flash units, other lenses for imaging and photography, film scanners, sport optics like spotting scopes and binoculars and various other products, like sunglasses, loupes, eyeglass frames, steppers, scanners and many more’.