Tag: 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:
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.
Nikkors constitute the majority of…