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Formatting your compact flash or memory card is an important step in digital photography. Formatting erases photos, deletes file extension data and makes a clean sweep of your media storage device. Formatting your compact flash card regularly in a Canon digital SLR camera will prevent file errors, corrupt data files and create more... more »
Canon cameras are one of the most popular brands of cameras for sale worldwide. The company sells everything from small consumer cameras that cost around $100 to high-end professional cameras that can cost several thousand dollars. If you're thinking about purchasing a Canon camera or already have one, there are a few things you can... more »
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Having a Canon Digital SLR can be a worthy purchase, because it can last for a long time. Plus, its numerous features and accessories allow you the flexibility to advance from beginner to expert in no time. Lenses are a big part of this advancement. Learning what lenses to use and how to use it for specific shots is very important for... more »
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slogan make it possible with canon (Japan)Delighting You Always (Asia)you can Canon (Europe)imageANYWARE (USA)Advanced Simplicity (Oceania)|
foundation Tokyo, Japan (10 August 1937) |
location_city Ōta, Tokyo |
location_country Japan |
key_people Fujio Mitarai, Chairman & CEOTsuneji Uchida, President & COO|
num_employees 166,980 (2008)zenobank> |
revenue $44.9 billion USD
(4,094,161 million Yen Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009) |
net_income 309,148 million Yen2008 |
industry Digital imaging Photography|
products Print and document solutions, photographic equipment including printers, scanners and digital and SLR cameras. Binoculars, calculators and medical, optical, broadcast and IT imaging equipment. |
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Company milestones
‘Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory’ is the predecessor of Canon Inc. and was founded in Tokyo in 1937 by Takeshi Mitarai, Goro Toshida, Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda.
1930s - 60s
*1933 - 1936 : ‘The Kwanon’"kwanon">., Japan’s first 35 mm focal plane-shutter camera, was produced in prototype form.
*1940: An indirect X-ray camera, also a first for Japan, is developed.
*1947: The company is renamed Canon Camera Co., Inc.
*1958: A field zoom lens for television broadcasting is introduced.
*1959: The world’s first camcorder with a zoom lens, ‘Reflex Zoom 8’ and the Canonflex is introduced.
*1961: Canon creates an outstanding Rangefinder camera, the Canon 7, and the Canon lens 50mm 1:0.95 in a special bayonet mount.
*1964: ‘Canola 130’, the first Japanese made 10-key calculator is introduced. It was a substantial improv read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon+(company)
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