Collection: Canon

Canon CorporationThe name Canon comes from the Buddhist Boddhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Kan'non in Japanese).
The company was initially named 精機光学研究所 (Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho?) for "Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory". The first commercially available 35mm camera was named Kwanon, which quickly became Canon to internationalize it.
The company then took the name Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd. in 1937, and ten years later, adopted its current name Canon (1947).

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