In 1961, Canon introduced the Rangefinder camera, Canon 7, and 50mm 1:0.95 lens in a special bayonet mount. Canon introduced a field zoom lens for television broadcasting in 1958, and in 1959 introduced the Reflex Zoom 8 and the Canonflex. In 1940 Canon developed Japan's first indirect X-ray camera. īetween 19, 'The Kwanon', a copy of the Leica design, Japan's first 35 mm focal-plane-shutter camera, was developed in prototype form. During its early years, the company did not have any facilities to produce its own optical glass, and its first cameras incorporated Nikkor lenses from Nippon Kogaku K.K. It became the company Precision Optical Instruments, Co., Ltd. The origins of Canon date back to the founding of Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory in Japan in 1933 by Takeshi Mitarai, Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda. The name Canon comes from Buddhist bodhisattva Kannon ( Japanese: 観音, lit.' Guanyin'), previously transliterated as Kuanyin, Kwannon, or Kwanon in English. In 1947, the company name was changed to Canon Camera Co., Inc., shortened to Canon Inc. In 1934 it produced the Kwanon, a prototype for Japan's first-ever 35 mm camera with a focal-plane-based shutter.

The company was originally named Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho ( Japanese: 精機光学研究所, lit.'Precision Optical Laboratory'). It used to have a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Ĭanon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX Core 30 and Nikkei 225 indexes. ( Japanese: キヤノン株式会社 Hepburn: Kyanon kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

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