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    Canon Celebrates Production Of 100 Million EOS-Series Interchangeable-Lens Cameras

    By Canon RumorsOctober 9, 2019Updated:October 9, 201917 Comments3 Mins Read Canon DSLR News
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    MELVILLE, NY, October 9, 2019 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced that its parent company, Canon Inc., celebrated a camera-manufacturing milestone – the production of the Company’s EOS-series silver halide (film) cameras combined with the digital interchangeable-lens cameras surpassing 100 million units* as of September 20, 2019. An EOS R mirrorless camera (released in October 2018) was the 100 millionth EOS-series camera produced, which is a true testament to Canon’s continued dedication to innovation and evolution of the EOS series with its first full-frame mirrorless camera.


    Boasting an attractive product lineup that caters to a variety of user needs and an extensive series of EF lenses, Canon strives to expand the boundaries of imaging expression. The EOS series has supported many users over its long history and enabled Canon to maintain the Number One share of the global interchangeable-lens digital camera market for 16 consecutive years from 2003 to 2018**.

    Here is a timeline of Canon’s EOS series history:

    • The EOS 650 was released in March 1987, a next-generation AF single-lens reflex (SLR) camera featuring the world’s first fully, electronic lens mount. Production of the EOS series began in what was then Canon’s Fukushima plant and now takes place at a variety of locations—including Taiwan, Miyazaki, Nagasaki and Oita Canon—where production is under high-product quality management.
    • Following the release of the EOS 650, Canon continued to introduce products featuring innovative technology that possess speed and comfort—such as the high-end EOS-1 released in 1989 and the EOS Rebel released in 1993 —expanding the EOS series to cater to users ranging from amateur to professional.
    • As the pace of digital SLRs (DSLR) adoption picked up from the year 2000 onwards, Canon sought to create even more appealing products. The EOS series’ core concept expanded to include “high-image quality,” achieved through proprietary, cutting-edge technology as CMOS sensors and DIGIC image processors.
    • In 2003, Canon released the EOS Rebel—a compact, lightweight DSLR with an affordable price—which contributed to the wider adoption of interchangeable-lens digital cameras.
    • Through the EOS 5D series, which contributed to the use of interchangeable-lens cameras for video capture as well as the establishment of the Cinema EOS System of professional digital cinematography products in 2012, Canon extended its video technology to the business-to-business, video-production industry.
    • Canon continued to explore new approaches with the EOS series with the 2018 launch of the EOS R System, which employs the new RF Mount.

    Expanding from its beginnings in still photos to the realm of video, the EOS series has come to support a wide range of users, from entry-level to professional. Canon will continue to prioritize “speed, comfort and high-image quality” as the core concept of the EOS series, further strengthening and expanding the EOS System towards expanding the culture of photographic and video imaging.

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    17 comments

    1. criscokkat
      October 9, 2019 at 3:32 pm
      That is a LOT of cameras. I'd be interested to know the number of EOS series lenses in the various mounts.
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    2. Adelino
      October 9, 2019 at 4:24 pm
      That is a LOT of cameras. I'd be interested to know the number of EOS series lenses in the various mounts.
      Isn't the total number of lenses 300 million? They reached that milestone a year or two or three or maybe a different number amount a while ago maybe not sure :)
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    3. okaro
      October 9, 2019 at 4:40 pm
      The total number of interchangeable lens cameras shipped since 1987 has been 235 million units. That means about 42% has been made by Canon.
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    4. Antono Refa
      October 9, 2019 at 4:44 pm
      Isn't the total number of lenses 300 million?

      It was 140 million as of December 2018.
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    5. tron
      October 9, 2019 at 4:46 pm
      They are ******* :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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    6. Antono Refa
      October 9, 2019 at 4:50 pm
      140 million lenses / 100 million cameras =~ sqrt(2).

      Coincidence? I Think Not!
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    7. tron
      October 9, 2019 at 4:54 pm
      140 million lenses / 100 million cameras =~ sqrt(2).

      Coincidence? I Think Not!
      It looks like there is 1-stop difference between them :D
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    8. mpb001
      October 9, 2019 at 5:06 pm
      I wonder if they will sell 100 million RF series lenses? I might not be around to find out...
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    9. SteveC
      October 9, 2019 at 5:47 pm
      It looks like there is 1-stop difference between them :D

      Half a stop, actually---since f/ numbers are the square root of the area which is what matters. (f/1.0 -> f/1.4 = doubling the area, one stop)

      Seriously, I hope the purchaser of that 100 millionth camera got a nice piece of swag for it.
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    10. Antono Refa
      October 9, 2019 at 5:48 pm
      I wonder if they will sell 100 million RF series lenses? I might not be around to find out...

      Canon sold 80 million lenses by August 2012, and 140 million lenses by December 2018. That is 60 million lenses in 6 years, or 10 million lenses a year in the tail the digital revolution.
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    11. Adelino
      October 9, 2019 at 8:23 pm
      Canon sold 80 million lenses by August 2012, and 140 million lenses by December 2018. That is 60 million lenses in 6 years, or 10 million lenses a year in the tail the digital revolution.
      Interesting statistic... yeah definitely headed in the other direction now. Hopefully it will be a nice bell shaped curve, but I think it will drop off faster.
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    12. tron
      October 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm
      Half a stop, actually---since f/ numbers are the square root of the area which is what matters. (f/1.0 -> f/1.4 = doubling the area, one stop)

      Seriously, I hope the purchaser of that 100 millionth camera got a nice piece of swag for it.
      OK I was thinking in terms of f/stops but yes I get it :)
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    13. sdz
      October 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm
      They are ******* :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

      Canon -- an evolutionary dead end.
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    14. Mt Spokane Photography
      October 10, 2019 at 3:39 am
      I probably have at least 8 or 10 of them, mostly film SLR's but 2 DSLR's.
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    15. DrJones
      October 10, 2019 at 8:08 am
      For me, I had: EOS-650, EOS 350D, Eos 40D, EOS 60D, EOS 70D, EOS R
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    16. Go Wild
      October 10, 2019 at 9:14 am
      Considerable number! From this i got 14. 2 point and shoot, 2 film, 1 bridge, 9 DSLR!
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    17. Maximilian
      October 10, 2019 at 4:52 pm
      I am *******!

      I have too many of these 100 mio - yet not enough ;):p:cry:
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