Canon provides imaging, optical, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, scanners, medical equipment, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. In April 1964, Eastman Kodak announced a new 8mm film standard: Super 8. This standard had a larger image size than regular 8, and the film was contained in an easy-to-handle cartridge. The new standard severely impacted other manufacturers, leading others including Canon to develop its first Super 8 model: the Zoom 518 Super 8. This camera was the first movie camera to use ABS on its exterior, which later became standard.
Eastman Kodak Company is a technology company that offers imaging and printing solutions. The company offers hardware, software, consumables and services to customers in commercial print, publishing, packaging, entertainment and manufacturing. It provides digital and traditional products and services to a range of commercial industries, such as direct mail, commercial print, book publishing, newspapers, magazines and packaging. The Brownie Reflex 20 is a twin-lens reflex style box camera from the 1950s. It can be described as a pseudo twin lens reflex camera, but not a true TLR because the top lens is just part of the viewfinder and does not aid focussing. It has a moulded plastic body with a large brilliant waist level viewfinder with a hood. The impact of this cheap, reliable little camera on American life and eventually on the whole world is difficult to overstate.