Canon said goodbye to the film era
Japanese company Canon has stopped the implementation of his latest film cameras-EOS-1V. This publication reports the Sankei.
Officially the production of this model ceased in 2010, since then, the company was selling products from warehouses. Despite the removal of models from the range, Canon will continue to service these cameras until October 31, 2025. In the repair may be refused in 2020, if the end of manufactured parts.
First digital camera the Canon RC-701 was presented to the public in 1984, and since then the company started to focus in this direction.
The main competitor Canon, Nikon will continue to offer buyers two film cameras Nikon F6 (137 thousand) and Nikon FM10 (36 thousand).
Canon was established in 1937 under the name Precision Optical Instruments. The first model was a clone of the German Leica “The Kwanon”. At that time, the company has not engaged in the lenses, so she used the optics of Nikkor lenses from Nippon Kogaku K. K., from which camera.