There it is! A beautiful, giant elk! While elk are indigenous to Pennsylvania, their numbers are very small. In fact, there may be less than 250 in the entire state. Luckily, you have you Canon digital camera with you and it has never failed you before. You pull out the camera and flick the one switch. Wait a minute – it isn’t going on? What’s wrong here you wonder as the elk moves off into the distance? Oh, it would seem you left the shudder open and the battery died. Apparently, your Canon camera did not fail you. You failed the camera by not taking proper care of it.

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The year was 1933 when three Japanese got together and began a company known as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, which was later to become known as Canon that in turn was to gain fame throughout the world. The first of the Canon cameras to hit the market was a prototype phantom known as ‘Kwanon’ which may not have been like the far more superior as well as costly German cameras that were almost the norm in cameras of those times, but were good enough to compete with those better known German cameras, which led Goro Yoshida and his two friends to come out with the 35mm rangefinder cameras that were less costly and which were sold under the name ‘Kwanon’.

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