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Nikkor ニッコール
Product type
Camera lenses Industrial optics Enlarger lenses Microscope objectives
Owner
Nikon Corp
Country
Japan
Introduced
1932; 92 years ago (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.
Nikko parent company brand, from which the Nikkor brand evolved.
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.
Nikkor Z 24-70 f/4 S lens
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