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Nikon
Nikon was founded in 1917 in Tokyo, and the company's cameras gained significant international recognition after American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan used Nikon lenses on his cameras while covering the Korean War, demonstrating their optical quality to a global photojournalism audience for the first time. The company's F-mount lens system, introduced in 1959 with the original Nikon F camera, remained in continuous production with backward compatibility for more than 60 years, an unusually long-lived lens mount standard within an industry where competitors have more frequently redesigned their mount systems. Nikon built a particularly strong reputation among professional photojournalists and nature photographers throughout the film and early digital eras, and the company's rivalry with Canon for dominance of the professional camera market became one of the most closely followed brand rivalries within the photography industry. Nikon's combination of its Korean War-era international breakthrough and its unusually long-running F-mount lens compatibility has made it one of the most historically significant camera brands in professional photography.
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Canon
Canon was founded in 1937 in Japan, initially as Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, and the company released its first camera the following year, building toward becoming one of the dominant manufacturers of both consumer and professional cameras over the following decades. The company's EOS system, launched in 1987, introduced a fully electronic lens mount that let the camera body and lens communicate digitally rather than through purely mechanical linkages, a significant technical shift that Canon has maintained and built upon across its subsequent decades of camera development. Canon became particularly dominant in the professional photojournalism and sports photography market with its EOS-1 series digital cameras, and the company has consistently ranked as one of the top two camera manufacturers globally by market share alongside Nikon and, more recently, Sony. Canon's combination of its pioneering fully electronic EOS lens mount system and its sustained dominance in professional photography has made it one of the most commercially significant camera brands in the history of the industry.
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