{"id":1559,"date":"2009-07-15T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2009-07-15T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T01:00:24","slug":"kwanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/kwanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/28823\" target=\"blank\">Mental Floss<\/a>, Canon started out as Kwanon.<\/p>\n<p><em>When Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory started developing Japan\u2019s first-ever 35mm camera equipped with a focal plane shutter, the engineers dubbed the creation \u201cKwanon\u201d after the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At this point the company\u2019s logo even included the thousand-armed goddess.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img176.imageshack.us\/img176\/2226\/kwanon.jpg\" alt=\"Canon?\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>When the camera was ready to roll out worldwide in 1935, the company decided to tweak the name to \u201cCanon\u201d so it would be easier for international markets to accept.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kwanon EOS 5D, sounds better to me.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mental Floss, Canon started out as Kwanon. When Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory started developing Japan\u2019s first-ever 35mm camera equipped with a focal plane shutter, the engineers dubbed the creation \u201cKwanon\u201d after the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At this point the company\u2019s logo even included the thousand-armed goddess. When the camera was ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,474,571],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-canon","tag-history","tag-kwanon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sqIRT-kwanon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}