Founded in 1917 and over 17,000 employee today worldwide; Nikon, also known as Nikon Corporation is a Japanese company who has specialized in different optical products like cameras, binoculars, camera lenses, microscope etc. It also offers other exciting products for industrial purpose like measuring instruments, surveying instruments, semi conduction equipments etc. Nikon is also known for its photolithography equipments worldwide. Nikon got its name in 1988 after the success of its cameras. Nikon belong to the Mitsubishi Group and it has now become one of the leading companies of this group. There are many competitors of Nikon who have also specialized in optical products like Kodak, Canon, Fuji Film, Sony etc. One interesting fact about Nikon is that it is the world’s largest manufactures of different steppers and it almost holds approximately 44% of the market share.

Nikon provides a wide line of exciting electronic products. Although they have specialized in the optical and imaging products but apart from it they have an exciting line of different electronic products. Nikon has categorized its products into industrial products and consumer products. Some of the major products of Nikon, particularly in UK, are:

Industrial Products:

• CMP Systems
• Microscopes
• Industrial microscopes and different measuring instruments
• IC & LCD Steppers
• Surveying Instruments
• Semiconductor Equipments
• CNC Video Measuring Systems

Consumer Products:

• Digital Cameras
• Binoculars
• Speed lights
• Scanners
• Sport optics
• Lenses
• Film cameras

Products that support Memory Card: In January 2006, Nikon announced that it will stop making film based cameras and it finally focused it attention toward the digital world. To be precise, Nikon provides a wide range of different consumer digital products that supports different extended memory cards like SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC plus etc. As mentioned earlier, Nikon is best known to its consumer for their optical products like Digital Cameras which provides excellent picture quality to capture that special moment. The Digital Cameras of Nikon are categorized into SLR Digital Cameras and COOLPIX Digital Cameras.

Following are some of the examples of different digital cams, out of hundreds, that has built-in memory as well as expansion slots for extended memory cards: