nikkor

Nikkor is the brand of lenses produced by Nikon Corporation, including camera lenses for the Nikon F-mount.

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). (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.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.
1 mount lenses for Nikon CX format currently used by Nikon 1 series.
Lenses for Bronica and Plaubel Makina medium format cameras.
Lenses for Nikon S-series (S-mount) and Leica rangefinder cameras
Amphibious lenses for Nikonos underwater cameras
Lenses for large format photography.
EL-Nikkor photographic enlarger lenses.
The lens of Canon's first or second camera, the "Hanza Canon."
Microscope objectives.
Industrial lenses, including lenses in support of the Japanese war effort during World War II.Currently the most actively developed and marketed Nikkor lenses are Nikon's F-mount photographic lenses. These lenses are designed to cover the 24x36mm area of 135 film and the Nikon FX format, or in the case of "DX" designated lenses, the 16x24mm area of the Nikon DX format.

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