"The name Canon began in 1947 after the company Kwanon changed its name. In 1934 Kwanon began with a prototype for Japan’s first-ever 35 mm camera with a focal plane shutter. It was named 'Kwanon'[3] by Goro Yoshida after the Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin, known in Japanese as Kannon."
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