Canon is a Japanese multinational corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, who has specialized in optical products that includes digital cameras, printers, scanners, copiers etc. Canon evolved from the Optical Instruments Laboratory which was established in 1930 by two brothers named; Goro Yoshida and Saburo Uchida. The basic purpose of this laboratory was to produce a 35mm rangefinder camera. The first camera through this laboratory was released in June 1934 and from that time they have been producing quality cameras. Canon got its name in 1937 and finally in August 1937 it became a corporation. Canon has specialized themselves in different optical products but many people are not aware of the fact that healthy revenue of the company is coming from office products like digital copiers, scanners etc. Canon in cooperation with Toshiba has manufactured Flat panel TVs which are based on a new type of display technology; SED.

Canon has a diverse range of different electronic products. Although they have specialized in the optical products but apart from it they have an exciting line of different electronic products. Canon is debatably considered to be the best brand that represents optical products. Some of the major products of Canon, particularly in UK, are:

• Digital Cameras
• Digital Camcorders
• Media storage devices that also use Memory cards like SD card etc.
• Printers
• Office print solutions
• Scanners
• Copiers
• Binoculars
• Imaging systems
• Calculators
• Web cameras
• Projectors
• Different broadcasting products.

The main focus of Canon has always been to provide excellent optical products to its consumers.

Products that support Memory Card: There are many products of Canon e.g., digital cams that has their own built-in memory and that also contains expansion slots to support extended memories like SD memory card, SDHC memory card, and multimedia card. Few products come with all these cards and other comes with only the expansion slots for these memory cards. Canon also brings excellent line of digital camcorders that also supports data to be written onto the SD/SDHC Memory card.

Since Canon has always focused on providing excellent optical products, that’s why they have a very wide range of diverse optical products like digital cams and camcorder. For the purpose of example, here are some of the most exciting digital cameras and camcorders that support different memory cards