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Revision as of 01:56, 30 December 2017

Canon, headquartered in Tokyo, is a Japanese company that specializes in imaging and optical products, including cameras, photocopiers and computer printers. Its current name is Canon Inc.(キヤノン株式会社).

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History

The company was founded in 1933 with the name Seiki Kōgaku Kenkyūjo (精機光学研究所, or Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory) by the co-founder Yoshit Gorō (吉田五郎)[1] from Hiroshima and his brother-in-law Uchida Saburō (内田三郎)[1], funded by Mitarai Takeshi (御手洗毅)[1], a close friend of Uchida. Its original purpose was to research into the development of quality cameras. Therefore Yoshida Gorō disassembled an original Leica II and studied it mindfully. In June 1934 they released their first camera, the Kwanon (pronounced kannon), named after the Buddhist bodhisattva of mercy of the same name (観音, カンオン; in Chinese Guān Yīn). Later it became the "Hansa Canon", the company's first commercial camera. The following year the camera's name was changed to the less overtly religious Canon (キャノン, pronounced kyanon). The company changed its name to Canon Camera in 1947, and to Canon in 1969.

The company's earliest cameras derived much from the design of the Leica threadmount rangefinder cameras; concerns about patents, as well as ignorance of the precise specification of the Leica thread mount, kept these earliest Canon cameras distinctive. Copies only came after the war, but Seiki Kōgaku swiftly equipped postwar Canon bodies with a combined viewfinder / rangefinder with three-way switchable magnification (50mm, 100mm, and rangefinder only). Other innovations followed.

Seiki Kōgaku at first did not have its own optical factory, so it used lenses made by Nikon, but it soon started to make its own lenses under the Serenar brand (later renamed Canon). These lenses remain popular even now by users of rangefinder cameras from Canon, Leitz, and so forth. The Serenar 50mm f1.8 of 1951 was an early highlight of that brand.

In 1959 The company introduced the Canonflex SLR system. Next big steps in the SLR field were the Canon F-1 of 1971, the Canon EF with automatic exposure based on the shutter priority principle, and the first computerized SLR Canon AE-1 of 1976. In 1986 Canon was the second after Sony introducing a completely electronic still camera without film, the Canon RC-701, which was based on video technology and also the first of these cameras with interchangeable lenses.

In 1996 Canon became the benchmark for the new but not very successful film market standard APS by introducing its high quality Canon IXUS camera series. In 2000 it launched its first amateur DSLR Canon EOS D30. Canon's APS SLRs as well as its DSLRs continued to have the Canon EF-mount so that older Canon autofocus lenses are applicable with the newer cameras. Canon started to make its own CMOS image sensors.

Digital

Canon DSLR's

D30 2000Q2
1D 2001Q4
D60 2002Q1
1Ds 2002Q4
10D 2003Q1
300D 2003Q3
Digital

Rebel

1D

Mk II

2004Q2
20D 2004Q3
1Ds

Mk II

2004Q4
20Da 2005Q1
350D 2005Q1
Rebel

XT

1D

Mk II N

2005Q3
5D 2005Q3
30D 2006Q1
1D

Mk III

2007Q1
400D 2007Q1
Rebel XTi
40D 2007Q3
1Ds

Mk III

2007Q4
450D 2008Q2
Rebel

XSi

1000D 2008Q3
Rebel XS
5D

Mk II

2008Q4
50D 2008Q4
500D 2009Q1
Rebel T1i
7D 2009Q3
1D

Mk IV

2009Q4
550D 2010Q1
Rebel

T2i

60D 2010Q3
600D 2011Q1
Rebel T3i
1100D 2011Q1
Rebel

T3

5D

Mk III

2012Q1
1D X 2012Q2
1D C 2012Q2
60Da 2012Q2
650D 2012Q2
Rebel T4i
M 2012Q3
6D 2012Q4
700D 2013Q1
Rebel T5i
100D 2013Q1
Rebel

SL1

70D 2013Q3
M2 2013Q4
1200D 2014Q1
Rebel T5
7D

Mk II

2014Q3
M3 2015Q1
5Ds

/ 5Ds R

2015Q2
750D 2015Q2
Rebel

T6i

760D 2015Q2
Rebel T6s
M10 2015Q4
1D X

Mk II

2016Q1
80D 2016Q2
1300D 2016Q2
Rebel T6
5D

Mk IV

2016Q3
M5 2016Q4
77D 2017Q1
800D 2017Q2
Rebel T7i
M6 2017Q2
6D Mk II 2017Q3
200D 2017Q3
Rebel SL2
M100 2017
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EOS 300D and EOS 400D


SV mount

Fixed Lens

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  • Canon PowerShot Pro S1
  • Canon PowerShot Pro1
  • Canon PowerShot Pro70
  • Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S1 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S10
  • Canon PowerShot S10 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S100
  • Canon PowerShot S110
  • Canon PowerShot S2 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S20
  • Canon PowerShot S20 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S200
  • Canon PowerShot S230
  • Canon PowerShot S3 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S30
  • Canon PowerShot S300
  • Canon Powershot S330
  • Canon PowerShot S40
  • Canon PowerShot S400
  • Canon PowerShot S410
  • Canon PowerShot S45
  • Canon PowerShot S5 IS
  • Canon PowerShot S50
  • Canon PowerShot S60
  • Canon PowerShot S70
  • Canon PowerShot S80
  • Canon PowerShot S90
  • Canon PowerShot SD10
  • Canon PowerShot SD100
  • Canon Powershot SD1000
  • Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital ELPH/Digital IXUS
  • Canon PowerShot SD110
  • Canon PowerShot SD20
  • Canon PowerShot SD200
  • Canon PowerShot SD30
  • Canon PowerShot SD300
  • Canon PowerShot SD400
  • Canon PowerShot SD430 Wireless
  • Canon PowerShot SD450
  • Canon PowerShot SD500
  • Canon PowerShot SD550
  • Canon PowerShot SD630 Digital ELPH/Digital IXUS
  • Canon Powershot SD750 IS
  • Canon Powershot SD850
  • Canon PowerShot SX100 IS
  • Canon PowerShot SX110 IS
  • Canon Powershot SX120 IS
  • Canon Powershot SX130 IS
  • Canon Powershot TX1
  • Canon RC-250 (Q-PIC)
  • Canon RC-251
  • Canon RC-260
  • Canon RC-360
  • Canon RC-450
  • Canon RC-570
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PowerShot SD630 Digital Elph


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Powershot S2 IS

35mm Film SLR Cameras

Fixed lens

R Mount (1959-1963)

FL Mount (1964-1969)

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FX


FD Mount (1970-1990)

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T80




EF Mount (Auto Focus)

Canon's EF mount is the widest throat lens mount for modern 35mm-format SLR cameras (film or digital). The distance from flange to film is also quite small, which makes it one of the most adaptable: though AF functions do not work, many users have adapted their EOS bodies to use lenses from Nikon, Contax, Leica, Pentax, and others.

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EOS 100


EF mount (Manual Focus)

Lenses for other mounts

See Exakta lenses for a couple of 1955 lenses for the Exakta (or Topcon).

35mm rangefinder

Interchangeable lens

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IV sb


And also screwmount lenses for the above (or other bodies with an appropriate lensmount). Canon also made the 25/3.5 in Contax (or Nikon S) mount.

Fixed lens

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GIII QL 17


35mm compact

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AF35 MII


35mm half frame

APS film

SLR

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IX


Compact

Regular 8mm Film

  • Cine 8-T
  • Cine Canonet 8
  • Cine Zoom 512
  • Motor Zoom 8 EEE
  • Reflex Zoom 8
  • Reflex Zoom 8-2
  • Reflex Zoom 8-3

Super 8mm Film

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auto zoom 518


  • AF 514 XL-S
  • AF 310 XL
  • AF 310 XL-S
  • Auto Zoom 318 M
  • Auto Zoom 512 Xl Electronic
  • Auto Zoom 518 Super 8
  • Auto Zoom 518 SVc1
  • Auto Zoom 814 Electronic
  • Auto Zoom 814 Super 8
  • Auto Zoom 1014 Electronic
  • Auto Zoom 1218 Super 8
  • Auto Zoom 2018 Electronic (prototype)
  • Zoom 250 Super 8
  • Zoom 318 Super 8
  • Zoom 518 Super 8
  • Zoom DS-8 (double super 8mm camera)
  • 310 XL
  • 312 XL-S
  • 514 XL
  • 514 XL-S
  • 814 XL Electronic
  • 814 XL-S
  • 1014 XL-S

Single 8mm Film

  • Single 8 518
  • Single 8 518 SV

16mm Film

  • Scoopic 16
  • Sound Scoopic 100
  • Sound Scoopic 200
  • Sound Scoopic 200S (200SE is the same but has viewfinder markings for TV)
  • Sound Scoopic 200S10
  • Sound Scoopic 16M
  • Sound Scoopic 16MN
  • Sound Scoopic 16MS
  • Systema Sound 16

110 film

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110 ED


126 film

  • Canomatic C30
  • Canomatic M70

120 film

The Seica (4.5×6) coupled-rangefinder folding camera has a SEIKI-KOGAKU engraving and it was perhaps a prototype made by Canon's predecessor.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The name is given in the Japanese order, with family name followed by the given name.

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