Nikon, also known as Nikon Corporation or Nikon Corp., is a Japanese company specialized in optics and imaging, with a wide range of products that includes cameras, microscopes, bincolulars, measurement devices and the steppers used in the photolitography steps of semiconductor fabrication. Founded way back in 1917 as Nihon (Nippon) and renamed Nikon Corporation in 1988, today Nikon is one of the Mitsubishi companies.

Apart from its notorious digital cameras, Nikon is also known to be producing the photo editing software Capture NX. At this year's Macworld, Nikon showed an updated version of this program, now available as a Universal Binary able to run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

The direct descendent of Nikon Capture, Capture NX is a full scale digital image processing and editing application that - for the first time - makes JPEG and TIFF processing and editing elegant and easy enough for any photographer to implement.
Capture NX is a product built to serve a wide range of users, from those employing compact digital cameras such as the Nikon COOLPIX series, to professional photographers using DSLR cameras.

A free update for registered users, Nikon Capture NX will be also available as a special limited time online upgrade for 90$ for US owners of Nikon Capture 4, limited to one upgrade per legitimate product key. Capture NX hasn't been released yet to the public, but you'll be able to grab it really soon, for a price of 149.99$, and a 39 days demo version will also be available for download.

Nikon Capture NX requires a G4, G5 or Intel processor, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, a minimum of 256 MB of memory, but 1GB or more is recommended, and 200MB of hard drive space for installation.