Canon celebrates 80th Anniversary of Kwanon
2014-09-05
On 2nd September 2014, Canon commemorated the 80th anniversary of the birth of Japan’s first 35mm focal-plane-shutter camera, dubbed the Kwanon, which was produced in prototype form in 1934. The engineers who created the camera decided to name it after Kwannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy, hoping the deity wouldContinue Reading