Nikon India, 100% subsidiary
of Nikon Corporation was pleased to announce that total production of
NIKKOR lenses for Nikon interchangeable lens cameras
reached eighty million in mid June 2013. In 1959, Nikon (then Nippon
Kogaku K.K.) released the Nikon F as well as its first NIKKOR lens
for Nikon SLR cameras, the NIKKOR-S Auto 5cm f/2. Nikon continues to expand its
lineup of interchangeable lenses for Nikon 1 cameras, the first of which was
released in October 2011, and bringing total lens production to eighty million.
In January 2013, Nikon announced the
AF-S NIKKOR 800mm f/5.6E FL ED VR, a super-telephoto 800mm lens compatible with
the Nikon FX format and offering the longest focal length in the history
of NIKKOR autofocus (AF) lenses, and the approximately 385-gram
compact and lightweight, approximately 1.9× zoom AF-S NIKKOR 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G
ED ultra-wide-angle zoom lens, also compatible with the Nikon FX format.
Further, in March of this year, the 5× telephoto-zoom, FX-format compatible
AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR, offering one of the fastest AF speeds in
its class was also announced.
In January 2013, Nikon announced two
new lenses for Nikon 1 advanced cameras with interchangeable lenses—the 1
NIKKOR VR 10-100mm f/4-5.6 10× zoom lens, a single lens that covers focal
lengths ranging from wide-angle to telephoto, and the ultra-wide-angle zoom 1
NIKKOR VR 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6, offering the widest angle of view in the 1 NIKKOR
lineup at 100°. In addition, the fastest lens in the 1 NIKKOR lineup, the 1
NIKKOR 32mm f/1.2, a mid-telephoto fixed focal length lens with a maximum
aperture of f/1.2, was announced in May of this year.