Within 1917 three of Japans leading optical manufacturers joined to form a comprehensive, fully incorporated optical company known as Nippon Kogaku K. K. These people launched their optical cup production and research within 1918. At the beginning of the early progress their optical lenses these people invited optical engineers through Germany. They needed to meet up with technology from more advanced nations and they eventually developed a number of lenses modeled after the Zeiss Tessar lens named “Anytar”.
In 1932 they followed Nikkor as their brand name for his or her camera lenses and in 1946 they adopted the name Nikon for their cameras. In 1959 Nikon introduced the Nikon Farrenheit, their first SLR camera. The actual Nikon F was a mostly successful camera that grew to become a worthy rival towards the popular German manufacturers Leica and Zeiss.
Many expert photographers and photojournalists started using the Nikon F. Inside 1980 the successful Nikon Brand delivered its digital cameras to NASA for use within the space shuttle, a display of their superior quality. In 1988 the organization was renamed Nikon Company, after its line of video cameras. In 1992 the Nikonos RS was marketed since the worlds first underwater auto-focus SLR camera.
The Nikon D1 was marketed in 99 paving the way for Nikons professional level Digital SLR collection. In the mid 2000’s the overall trend in the industry was that this sale of consumer as well as professional level film camcorders was falling quickly due to the improve of digital cameras and their growing affordability. At the beginning of 2006 Nikon announced it would stop making the majority of its film cameras as well as its large format lens. Today Nikon is still among the leading manufacturers of specialist level cameras with its present model being the D3X.