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Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational company that specializes in manufacturing optical products such as digital cameras, computer printers, camcorders, photocopiers, and medical equipment. Based in Tokyo, Japan, the company was founded in 1937 by Takeshi Mitarai, Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchid, and Takeo Maeda. Canon Inc. succeeded Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory. The company developed Japan’s first-ever 35mm camera called Kwanon. Eventually the name of the company was changed to Canon in 1947.
Canon Produces Its 40 Millionth EOS-series SLR Camera
05/13/2010, If you’re into history, it’s worth noting that the production of the first Canon EOS SLR camera started back in 1987. Fast forward to 2010, Canon has just churned out its 40-millionth EOS-series SLR camera (which includes film and digital). [...]
Canon PowerShot SD4000 IS Compact Camera Goes Official
05/11/2010, Shopping around for a new compact camera? Well, Canon has just introduced its latest PowerShot, the SD4000 IS. This camera is a 10-megapixel shooter that touts a back-illuminated CMOS sensor, DIGIC4 image processing engine and a healthy 3.8x optical zoom. [...]
American Express lets you snag Canon EOS Rebel T2i for half the price
05/10/2010, There is nothing quite like the feeling of having some plastic in your wallet to help fund purchases that you normally can’t afford, and American Express is now letting you pick up the Canon EOS Rebel T2i for nearly 50% [...]
Canon CanoScan 9000F color image scanner does film scanning as well
05/05/2010, Have you made the jump to the world of digital photography that you have forgotten your collection of film-based photos captured all those years ago? Just in case you still have rolls of negatives sitting in a box somewhere, why [...]
Canon 60D looks set to replace 50D
04/29/2010, The rumored Canon 60D looks set to be a replacement for the 50D, where this DSLR is currently in its final testing phase and is on the verge of being mass produced from a manufacturing line. We could be looking [...]
Canon 550D DSLR Gets The Jackie Chan Treatment
04/27/2010, Canon’s 550D is one great entry level camera, but how do you make something cool even cooler? Well, you could try coming up with a Jackie Chan (the famous Kung Fu guy) edition. The bad news is that there will [...]
New Canon 7D 1.2.1 Firmware Fixes Magenta Colored Banding Issue
04/18/2010, If you’ve been experiencing some rather strange magenta-colored banding in the images churned out by your Canon EOS 7D camera, there is some good news for you. Canon has released an official firmware update on its site, bringing the firmware [...]
Panasonic Introduces The Micro Four Thirds AG-AF100 Camcorder
04/12/2010, The Micro Four Thirds (MFT) standard has gotten another device to support it, as Panasonic has launched its first ever MFT camcorder, the AG-AF100. The camcorder uses an SLR-sized sensor to shoot 1080p video with the same depth of field [...]
Canon FS-CF and FS-CF Pro portable Compact Flash DTE recorders
04/08/2010, Canon has rolled out its FS-CF and FS-CF Pro portable Compact Flash DTE recorders that will feature HD video recording to Compact Flash (CF) cards that cater for Canon’s line of HDV camcorders and Mini-DV camcorders. Among the new features [...]
Canon KS-120TKR calculator
03/31/2010, Calculators are supposed to be passe these days, but the Canon KS-120TKR calculator takes a different route since it comes with a USB Wireless Dongle that enables you to hook it up to a PC or Mac, doubling as an [...]
Canon REALiS SX7 Mark II D projector
03/31/2010, The latest projector from Canon would be the REALiS SX7 Mark II D, where it will sport DICOM Simulation Mode as well. This isn’t meant for casual use, since it is more than capable of handling the medical-education field, where [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware 2.0.3 fix
03/19/2010, We just posted about the audio recording issue concerning Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II firmware 2.0.3 earlier today, and the folks at Canon have already fixed it – at least in Japan, where version 2.0.4 is now ready to be downloaded. [...]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II 2.0.3 firmware update has fair share of troubles
03/19/2010, Looks like the recently unveiled Canon EOS 5D Mark II 2.0.3 firmware update did not only improve image quality, but it also came with its fair share of troubles, where selected users saw a malfunction which resulted in the camera [...]
