Cosina Co., Ltd. (株式会社コシナ) is a manufacturer of high-end optical glass, optical precision equipment, cameras, video and electronic related equipment, based in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.[1][2]
History
Cosina is the successor to Nikō (or "Nikoh"), a company set up as a lens processing factory in February 1959, which was a pioneer in optical polishing and lens grinding in Japan.[1] In 1966, it also began manufacturing 35 mm compact cameras and 8 mm cine cameras, and a year later started the manufacture of 35mm film SLR cameras.In 1968, it started a glass melting factory. Nikō changed its name to Cosina in 1973.[2] (The first part of the name is a reference to the Koshi area within Nakano, where the founder came from; while the 'Na' represents Nakano.)