Nikon 100th Anniversary Special Feature

A Look Back at Nikon’s 100-Year History of Value Creation

Nikon celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 25, 2017. Nikon has evolved together with light-related technologies over the course of the past century. Driven by our abundant sense of curiosity and inquisitiveness, we have continued to unlock new possibilities that have shined light on the path to a brighter future, creating revolutionary new products along the way. We pride ourselves on the contributions we have made to changing society. Seeking to make our hopes and dreams a reality, the Nikon Group will boldly pursue innovation over the next 100 years, striving to transform the impossible of yesterday into the normal of tomorrow. We will take a look back at Nikon’s 100-year history of value creation.

1917 Three of Japan’s leading optical 1946 Pointal ophthalmic lens manufacturers merge to form is marketed a comprehensive, fully integrated Nikon’s fi rst ophthalmic lens optical company known as Nikon brand name is adopted for Nippon Kogaku K.K. small-sized cameras Pointal

Oi Dai-ichi Plant (now Oi Plant) Tilting Level E and Transit G 1918 is completed 1947 surveying instruments are marketed Nikon’s fi rst surveying instruments after World War II

MIKRON 4x and 6x 1921 ultra-small-prism binoculars are marketed Nikon Model I small-sized 1948 camera is marketed The fi rst binoculars developed, designed and manufactured The fi rst Nikon camera and the by Nikon fi rst product to bear the MIKRON 6x “Nikon” name Nikon Model I Model I profile projector JOICO Microscope is marketed 1925 is marketed The fi rst microscope designed by Nikon A profi le projector redesigned from a home-use model to incorporate the parallel beam illumination method and other features

NIKKOR is adopted as brand Model I profi le projector 1932 name for camera lenses Listed on both Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges 1949

With the end of World War II, production shifts to The New York Times introduces the superior features 1945 1950 cameras, microscopes, binoculars, surveying instruments, of Nikon cameras and Nikkor lenses to the world measuring instruments and ophthalmic lenses

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1952 nikkor club is established to 1986 NSR-L7501G large substrate promote photography culture exposure system is marketed Nikon’s fi rst LCD steppers and scanners

Nikon F SLR camera is marketed 1959 Corporate name is changed to Nikon’s fi rst lens-interchangeable 1988 SPECIAL FEATURE single-lens refl ex (SLR) camera Nikon Corporation

Nikon (Thailand) Co., Ltd. is 1990 established in Thailand Ultra-micro Nikkor high-resolution 1962 Nikon’s fi rst full-scale overseas optical lenses are marketed production base Boasted position as world’s highest-resolution lens at the time

Presio FX and DX progressive addition lenses 1993 are marketed First Presio series product

NIKONOS all-weather camera 1963 NEXIV series CNC video measuring is marketed 1995 system is marketed Sophisticated, water-, pressure-, Non-contact high-precision and corrosion-resistant measurement was made possible amphibious camera by image processing technology Nikon Singapore Pte Ltd is established in Singapore Nikon Europe N.V. 1968 (now Nikon Europe B.V.) is NEXIV established in the Netherlands

COOLPIX 100 and 300 digital 1997 Nikon Photomic FTN is mounted cameras are marketed 1971 on APOLLO 15 Nikon’s first compact digital cameras

COOLPIX 100 Biophot and Metaphot microscopes 1976 are marketed D1 digital SLR camera 1999 Equipped with revolutionary chromatic is marketed aberration free system Priced with general users in mind, it contributed to the popularity of digital SLR cameras

Biophot Vision Nikon 21 business strategy 2000 NSR-1010G Step-and-Repeat is formulated 1980 System (stepper) for Corporate philosophy is defi ned as manufacturing VLSIs is marketed “Trustworthiness and Creativity” The fi rst domestically manufactured FX-21S LCD scanner is marketed commercial stepper Multi-lens projection optical FX-21S system was adopted

Acquires Ehrenreich 1981 Nikon Imaging (China) Co., Ltd. Photo-Optical Industries, Inc. 2002 and renames it Nikon Inc. is established in China

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2003 New Brand Symbol for Nikon Group 2013 Nikon 1 AW1 advanced is introduced camera-interchangeable lens type is marketed The world’s fi rst digital camera with interchangeable lenses that is both waterproof and shockproof Nikon Imaging (China) Sales Co., Ltd. 2005 Health and medical fields selected Nikon 1 AW1 starts operations in China as new business targets

NSR-S609B ArF immersion In-house company system is abolished and 2006 2014 scanner is marketed reorganized into divisional system under direct First model incorporating Immersion control of president Lithography Technology and the fi rst to break the barrier of NA 1.0 in air U.K.-based Optos Plc becomes a 2015 wholly owned subsidiary of BioStation CT cell culture 2007 Nikon Corporation observation system is marketed Equipped with a microscope in the Nikon CeLL innovation Co., Ltd. incubator, it has expanded the is established possibilities of live cell observation HN-C3030 non-contact sensor HN-C3030 3D metrology system is marketed High-speed, high-accuracy FX-101S LCD scanner non-contact 3D metrology system 2009 is marketed The Nikon Museum is opened Supporting 10th-generation mother glass (about three square meters) Nikon Museum Belgium-based Metris NV becomes Nikon Metrology NV, FX-101S a wholly owned subsidiary NSR-S631E ArF immersion 2016 of Nikon Corporation scanner is marketed Developed for high-volume manufacturing of device at the 7 nm processes node N-SIM and N-STORM super NSR-S631E 2010 D5 and D500 digital resolution microscopes SLR cameras are marketed are marketed Equipped with 153-point Achieved a resolution that is beyond autofocus system the capabilities of conventional optical microscopes N-SIM FX-68S FPD scanner is marketed D5 HN-6060 non-contact Delivering a high resolution multi-sensor 3D metrology of 1.5 μm system is marketed Total production of NIKKOR An object’s shape and waviness lenses for interchangeable-lens can be measured in a single operation HN-6060 cameras reaches 100 million Nikon CEE GmbH starts FX-68S Nikon 1 J1 and V1 advanced 2011 operations in Austria cameras-interchangeable lens type are marketed Nikon’s fi rst advanced cameras- interchangeable lens type Nikon 1 V1

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100th anniversary of founding is celebrated 2016 KeyMission 360, KeyMission 2017 170 and KeyMission 80 New vision is established are marketed Nikon’s fi rst action cameras Our Vision U.K.-based Mark Roberts Motion Control Limited becomes a wholly KeyMission 360 Unlock the future with the power of light owned subsidiary of Nikon

Corporation SPECIAL FEATURE Unleashing the limitless possibilities of light. ECLIPSE Ti2 inverted research Striving to brighten the human experience. microscope is marketed Flagship integrated platform Focused, with purpose, on a better future for all. for live cell imaging ECLIPSE Ti2 THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF NIKON.

Evolution of Products

1948 2016 Cameras Flagship digital SLR camera model Nikon Model I D5

2017 1921 Binoculars WX 7x50 IF/ Binoculars with super-wide fi eld of view MIKRON 6x WX 10x50 IF

FPD 1986 2016 Generation 6 plate Lithography Systems NSR-L7501G FX-68S FPD Lithography system

Semiconductor 1980 2016 Cutting-edge device capable of handling Lithography Systems NSR-1010G NSR-S631E multiple patterning

1925 2016 Microscopes Flagship biological microscope model JOICO Microscope ECLIPSE Ti2

1948 Metrology 2015 Model I profi le Non-contact 3D metrology system Systems HN-C3030 projector

1947 Surveying 2016 Level E Capable of automated, 3D measuring Instruments Nivo i Transit G

1946 2016 Glass Lenses 3D full-order-made.single vision lens Pointal SeeMax AP

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