I can't prove it but Nikon is reputed to have first introduced VR
which was a small, internal part system on a 35mm film point and
shoot, but did not develop it further(the purity thing?). Canon saw
the implications and licensed it from Nikon. Then Nikon jumped on
later. Both companies have a similar number of patents on it.
http://www.fotabug.com/viewpoints.htm
About a 1/3 of the way down.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Sep 5, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Moose wrote:
> So was Canon's development of a practical internal IS based on moving
> only small parts of the optical system "pick[ing] all the good things
> that the little companies come up with"? Or was it genuine
> innovation? I
> don't know, but I do know that Canon was first to market with a
> really
> useful technology that allowed photographers to take images they
> couldn't before. And I know Panasonic didn't call foul. When they saw
> which way the wind was blowing in the segment they wanted to do
> well in,
> they dug in and developed their own OIS using similar principles to
> Canon. Nikon too saw the handwriting on the wall and jumped on
> development of their own system, VR.
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