Notice Concerning the Decision on Payment Price and Other Details of Stock Options
(Stock Acquisition Rights)

Nikon Corporation (the "Company") hereby announces that the amount to be paid upon exercise and other details of Stock Acquisition Rights, pursuant to a resolution of its Board of Directors on June 29, 2005, were determined today as set forth below.

1. Date of Issuance: July 1, 2005
2. Total number of Stock Acquisition Rights: 178 (The number of Stock Acquisition Rights is subject to decrease pursuant to the terms and conditions for redemption of the Stock Acquisition Rights.)
3. Type and Number of Shares Subject to Stock Acquisition Rights: 178,000 shares of the Company's common stock (The number of shares subject to each Stock Acquisition Right shall be 1,000.)
4. Amount to be Paid upon Exercise of Each Stock Acquisition Right: ¥1,273,000 per Stock Acquisition Right (¥1,273 per share)
   This amount shall be 105% of the average of the closing price (the "Closing Price") in regular transactions of the Company's Common Stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on each day (excluding any day on which there is no Closing Price or no trading) in the month preceding the month in which the date of issuance of Stock Acquisition Rights falls (any amount below 1 yen shall be rounded up to the nearest 1 yen).
5. Total Amount of Common Stock to be Issued or Transferred as a Consequence of the Exercise of Stock Acquisition Rights: ¥226,594,000
6. Amount to be Appropriated for Capital: ¥637 per share

• Notes:
  1. Resolution date of the Board of Directors to place at ordinary general meeting of shareholders: May 16, 2005
  2. Resolution date at the ordinary general meeting of shareholders: June 29, 2005
  3. Exercise Period of Stock Acquisition Rights: June 30, 2007-June 29, 2015