Other Ways for Nikon to Make Money

A settlement between Nikon, Zeiss and ASML:

https://www.nikon.com/news/2019/0123_01.htm

Joe

Let's keep NSN about photography

This has nothing to do with photography. This pertains to their semiconductor manufacturing equipment business, specifically between the world's largest photolithography manufacturer ASML and the company that lost that title about 15 years ago, Nikon and one of the manufacturers that provides optical components for those tools - in my previous career at Intel I worked heavily with Nikon and ASML and have a lot of background in this matter being a purchaser of these systems from both of these companies.

We don't talk about Fuji Heavy Industries, Sony TVs and Phones, Olympus medical equipment, Ricoh copiers, or any myriad of Canon's business so I would prefer not to open NSN up to discussion of Camera manufacturer's non-photography related business.

Directly, but on the fringe, cameras were involved:

https://petapixel.com/2017/05/31/u-s-pr ... complaint/

But I will respect your request with my apologies.

Joe

No apology necessary, it's just that we could really get into the weeds and it really doesn't mean much if anything for photography