In 1976, when Canon introduced its AE-1, it started a revolution – not on the streets, but in camera manufacturing. It was the very first camera to be built with a microprocessor at its heart and thus ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

Mamiya Koki Seisakusho, later to become the Mamiya Camera Company, was launched in 1940 by businessman Tsunejiro Sugawara and engineer Seichi Mamiya. The company’s first camera, launched the same year ...