The Canon EOS System was introduced 1986 with the EOS 650 and EOS 620; it is still current with evolutionary digital elimination of film.
Unlike Nikon, which has always gone to great lengths to maintain backwards compatibility, Canon designed the EOS series of cameras from the ground up with an eye exclusively turned towards design elegance and "future proofing" the system end products. When it was introduced, the EOS system was a very sharp departure from the purely mechanical and electro-mechanical hybrid products that it was to eventually completely replace. It was obviously a huge gamble but it was a gamble that just as obviously worked out. After decades of trailing Nikon in professional photographic applications this was to prove to be the set of efforts that would allow Canon to finally achieve parity and, at least briefly, obvious superiority over Nikon's offerings.
Unlike Nikon, which has always gone to great lengths to maintain backwards compatibility, Canon designed the EOS series of cameras from the ground up with an eye exclusively turned towards design elegance and "future proofing" the system end products. When it was introduced, the EOS system was a very sharp departure from the purely mechanical and electro-mechanical hybrid products that it was to eventually completely replace. It was obviously a huge gamble but it was a gamble that just as obviously worked out. After decades of trailing Nikon in professional photographic applications this was to prove to be the set of efforts that would allow Canon to finally achieve parity and, at least briefly, obvious superiority over Nikon's offerings. |
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