Nikon has taken me by surprise with so many of its quality products. It is my brand of choice, and we still be my brand of choice on all future body purchases. Below is a brief description of my main equipment plus various facts and figures about Nikon and its growing brand.
Camera: D90
Fusing 12.3-megapixel image quality inherited from the award-winning D300 with groundbreaking features, the D90’s breathtaking, low-noise image quality is further advanced with EXPEED image processing. Split-second shutter response and continuous shooting at up to 4.5 frames-per-second provide the power to capture fast action and precise moments perfectly, while Nikon’s exclusive Scene Recognition System contributes to faster 11-area autofocus performance, finer white balance detection and more.
Lenses: Nikkor 55-200VR, Nikkor 18-55, Tamron 17-50, Nikkor 70-300VR
Flash: Nikon SB-600
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Nikon Corporation is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppersphotolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication. It was founded in 1917 as used in the Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō ; the company was renamed Nikon Corporation, after its cameras, in 1988. Nikon is one of the major companies of the Mitsubishi Group.
Among its famous products are Nikkor camera lenses (notably those designed for the company’s own F-mount SLR cameras), Nikonos underwater cameras, the Nikon F-series of professional 135 film SLR cameras, and the Nikon D-series digital SLRs. Nikon has helped lead the transition to digital photographyconsumer and prosumer cameras as well as DSLR system cameras like the Nikon D300, D200, D100, D80, D70/s, D60, D50 and D40/x, and professional DSLRs including the D2 series and D3 cameras. with both the Coolpix line of
Nikon’s main competitors include Canon, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Fujifilm and Olympus.
Nikon is the world’s largest manufacturer of steppers and holds 44% share of the market. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon
