> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(company)>"The new company was off to a good start. However, there was a problem: Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory had not developed a lens. Several alternatives were considered, but the decision was made to seek help from a corporation known as Nippon Kogaku Kogyo (Japan Optical Industries, Inc., the predecessor of Nikon) to use their Nikkor lens. So in February 1936, the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory was able to release the "Hansa Canon (Standard Model with the Nikkor 50 mm f/3.5 lens)", which became Kwanon's first commercially available camera."So Canon's first camera used a Nikon lens. Let the shitstorm begin!
LOLOLOL OMGsage
in other breaking photography news, the AF system was developed by Minolta and canon makes office equipment. I knew my flatbed scanner needed that 50/1.2.gb2/basement/
>>244840gb2/basement/I'm bored at work right now, not basement lurking. I'd rather be out shooting.
slowpoke.jpgAlso, Mitsubishi owns Nikon, Sony is a bank, Pentax is owned by Hoya, and Fujifilm built computers in the 50's.
oh, and Canon, Hitachi, Nissan, and Ricoh belong to the same holdings company. Fujifilm is with Toyota and Toshiba.