farewell, DDD.

[Birna Rørslett]

Here in the USA, I’ve only heard “Ni-kon” and “Ni-kor” (both with a long i) but all my Australian friends pronounce them as “Nik-on” and “Nik-kor.”

So do the British.

Scandinavians in general pronounce Ni-kon with a short 'i' and light open 'o'. In Japan, the CEO of Nikon thought I did it the correct way judged from his smile

The big Press Launch of the Nikon D3 in 2007, with hundreds of journalists and reviewers all over the world attending was opened with a speak on how to pronounce "Nikon" and "Nikkor". Just saying I was a bit surprised but evidently the officials deemed the opportunity was too good to miss.

[Fons Baerken]

Makes me think of that brand of running shoes which was named after a Greek godess.

[richardHaw]

https://www.nikon.co.jp/news/2018/0608_info_01.htm

it was a sad day for Nikon, too 

Edit to add English version:
https://www.nikon.com/news/2018/0608_info_01.htm

[Hugh_3170]

Akira, Armando, Jaques, Arthur, Birna, Fons and others - thank you all.

Clearly there is quite a variation in respect of these pronunciations.  Maybe DDD's pronunciation of Nikon and Nikkor at least set a pronunciation precedent for some of us.

Akira, could you please indicate for me how would a person whose first language is Japanese would correctly pronounce Nikon and Nikkor?

I have always associated naikon and naikor as being an American interpretation of the pronunciation.

Thanks in anticipation.