It was the 11th consecutive decline for the equipment makers, which include Tokyo Electron and the Nikon Corporation.
The Coolpix P7000 is a digital compact camera introduced by the Nikon Corporation in 2010.
Profit for the Nikon Corporation more than tripled in the first half of its fiscal year on strong sales of equipment used to make computer chips.
The Nikon Corporation, the Japanese camera company, was not even in the semiconductor equipment business 10 years ago.
The Coolpix P6000 is a digital camera introduced by the Nikon Corporation in August 2008.
Nikon Corporation, specializing in optics and imaging.
It was released by the Nikon Corporation in November 2005.
The site is independently maintained and is not affiliated with Nikon Corporation.
The agreement comes only three years after a controversy arose when the same technology was almost sold to another Japanese company, the Nikon Corporation.
It was manufactured by Nikon Corporation in Japan, on small-volume assembly lines, from 2001 to 2006.