Bell and Howell is a United States brand of cameras , lenses , and motion picture machinery. It was originally founded as a company in 1907, and headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois . The company was acquired by Böwe Systec in 2003. Since 2010, the brand name has been licensed for a variety of consumer electronics products.
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64-575: A combined viewfinder/rangefinder system, reducing the windows on the front of the camera to two. However, in most other respects these cameras remained visually similar to the Leica III. In 1956, Canon departed from the Leica II Style and developed a more contemporary look, along with a Contax style self-timer level to the left of the lens mount. This was the first Canon camera with a swing-open camera back for film loading. Upper end models had
96-518: A digital video recorder was released featuring the Bell + Howell brand. In 2017 the company spun off the mail sorting business, including vote by mail, to Fluence Automation, which was then acquired by BlueCrest Inc. in 2021. BlueCrest had acquired the Pitney-Bowes document messaging business in 2018. In December 2018, Versa Capital Management, LLC ("Versa") announced the successful closing of
128-652: A flip screen for selfies and vlogs) Speedlite 300EZ, Speedlite 420EZ, Speedlite 430EZ, Speedlite 540EZ The 300T is a layover from the FD system, it was introduced with the FD mount Canon T90, but is compatible in TTL mode with most non-digital EF cameras. Macro Twin Lite MT-24EX, Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX, Macro Ring Lite ML-3 All-in-One office printers manufactured from 2007 to 2013. The "iR" series uses Ultra Fast Rendering ( UFR ) printing system, and some models use UFR II ,
160-640: A new three-mode viewfinders and winding triggers. Canon partnered with US manufacturer Bell & Howell between 1961–1976 and a few Canon products were sold in the US under the Bell & Howell brand e.g. Canon 7 Rangefinder, Canon EX-EE, and the Canon TX. (See also: Template:Table of Canon SLR ) Canon developed and produced the Canon R lens mount for film SLR cameras in 1959. The FL lens mount replaced R-mounts in 1964. Details [1] Canon developed and produced
192-459: A page description language. Manufactured as of 2022 color printers Manufactured as of 2022 black&white printers StarWriter Jet 300 — a word processor and Personal Publishing System . Beginning in Spring 1993, Canon produced a series of notebooks with integrated inkjet printers called NoteJet . The initial price for the first-model NoteJet was U.S. $ 2,499. The NoteJet lineup
224-617: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages List of Canon products#S series The following provides a partial list of products manufactured under the Canon brand . Other products manufactured and/or service-rendered under the Canon brand may not appear here. Such products may include office or industrial application devices, wireless LAN products, and semiconductor and precision products. Seiki Kogaku (now Canon) began to develop and subsequently to produce rangefinder cameras with
256-699: Is widely regarded as the template for the EOS line of camera bodies, although the T90 employed the older FD lens-mount standard. For a detailed list of EOS Film and digital SLR cameras, see Canon EOS . See Canon EOS Canon Cinema EOS cameras as of May 2022. US names listed (first PowerShot camera with built-in Wi-Fi) (not officially sold in North America) (first SX-Series based PowerShot camera to be more compact) (first Powershot camera with
288-610: The Canon FL lens-mount standard for film SLR cameras from 1964 to replace the Canon R lens-mount standard. The FD lens mount standard replaced FL-mounts in 1971. In 1969 Canon introduced an economy camera/lens system where the rear three elements (in two groups) were built-on-to the camera, and several front element options could be interchanged. This had been used by Zeiss-Ikon in their mid-level cameras of their Contaflex series, and by Kodak in early interchangeable lenses for
320-595: The FL lens mount standard. The FD mount had two variants – original lenses used a breechlock collar to mount whilst later versions used a standard bayonet twist lock with a short twist action. The EF lens mount standard superseded FD-mounts in 1987. Canon ceased to produce FD -mount cameras in 1994. In 1987, Canon introduced the EOS Single-lens reflex camera system along with the EF lens-mount standard to replace
352-412: The data transfer rate when printing high-resolution graphics. Series introduced in the 1990s. Black & white only. Series introduced in the 1990s. Canon refers to inkjet printers as bubblejets , hence the frequent BJC-prefix (BubbleJet Color). In Japan, the models are denoted with a trailing "i", whereas in the rest of the world they are denoted with a leading "i". While the 50i corresponds to
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#1732779593872384-637: The " Darth Vader " Apple II for its black case design. Bell & Howell founded an Education Group within the company in 1907. This Education Group created Bell & Howell Schools in 1966. In that same year, the Education Group purchased a controlling share of DeVry Institute of Technology . Two years later in 1968, Bell & Howell's Education Group, via a controlling interest in DeVry, acquired Ohio Institute of Technology in Columbus, Ohio. Over
416-522: The 16-year-old FD lens-mount standard; EOS became the sole SLR camera-system used by Canon today . Canon also used EOS for its digital SLR cameras. All current film and digital SLR cameras produced by Canon today use the EOS autofocus system. Canon introduced this system in 1987 along with the EF lens mount standard. The last non-EOS based SLR camera produced by Canon, the Canon T90 of 1986,
448-541: The Canon branding. The firm dropped the production of movie cameras by the end of the 1970s. Bell & Howell was a supplier of media equipment for schools and offices. The film laboratory line is now a separate company, BHP Inc, which is a division of Research Technology International. In 1960, Bell & Howell merged with an Electronics and Instrumentation company CEC, Lennox Road, Basingstoke , UK. This facility produced pressure transducers and other devices for applications in areas such as North Sea oil platforms,
480-465: The Filmo Auto-8 in 1940. The firm added microfilm products in 1946. In 1954, Bell & Howell purchased DeVry Industries ' 16mm division. Although known for manufacturing their film projectors, a partnership with Canon between 1961 and 1976 offered still cameras. Many of their 35mm SLR cameras were manufactured by Canon with the Bell & Howell logo or Bell & Howell/Canon in place of
512-786: The Kwanon prototype in 1933, based on the Leica II 35mm camera, with separate rangefinder and view finder systems (3 windows). Production began with the Hansa Canon on the Leica III format through World War II. Post war, Canon resumed production of pre-war designs in early 1946 with the JII viewfinder and the S1 rangefinder. But in late 1946 they introduced the SII which departed from the Leica design by offering
544-514: The chemical industry, and the Ariane Space vehicles. This division was divested to Transamerica Corporation in 1983. In 1977, Bell & Howell signed an agreement with BASF to develop a new amateur videotape recorder, which would have made use of a 6.25 millimetres (0.246 in) tape on which 28 of parallel tracks were to be recorded with the aid of a fixed head. The machine was expected to be ready by Christmas 1979, but did not reach
576-648: The collection were: Bell %26 Howell According to its charter, the Bell & Howell Company was incorporated on February 17, 1907. It was recorded in the Cook County Record Book eight days later. The first meeting of stockholders took place in the office of Attorney W. G. Strong on February 19 at 10 a.m. (10:00 CT). The first board of directors was chosen for a term of one year: Donald Joseph Bell (1869–1934), chairman; Albert Summers Howell (1879–1951), secretary; and Marguerite V. Bell (wife of Donald Bell), vice chairman. The firm made products for
608-524: The company out of bankruptcy and renamed the company "Bell and Howell, LLC". In 2010 consumer electronics manufacturer Elite Brands licensed the Bell + Howell brand name to use on optical and imaging products including digital cameras and camcorders, binoculars, telescopes, lenses, and various camera accessories. BHH, LLC has also expanded licensing of the Bell + Howell brand name for a range of products including lighting and security, personal care, tools, pest control, auto accessories and luggage. In 2011
640-549: The film printing industry. Historically, Bell & Howell Co. was an important supplier of many different media technologies, and it produced products such as: In 1934, Bell & Howell introduced their first amateur 8mm movie projector, in 1935 the Filmo Straight Eight camera, and in 1936 the Double-Run Filmo 8. The 1938 Kodak cassette holding 25 feet (7.6 m) of Double-Eight film was taken by
672-406: The flicker that can occur during motion-picture projection. The 35-mm perforator, introduced in 1910, set the standard throughout the industry as to the expected distance and width of the sprocket holes running on each side of the 35-mm film; before this there had been no agreed upon standard Bell & Howell developed a continuous film printing process in 1911, that was gradually accepted across
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#1732779593872704-469: The i70, for all other corresponding models the numerical model numbers are identical. The "X" denotes models sold under special dispensation by retail outlets in Europe. Since about 2005 Canon introduced a numbering scheme for some whereby the least significant (non-zero) digit signifies the geographic region ("3" signifying Japan) the device is sold in. This leads to a large number of models, all belonging to
736-413: The market. Bell & Howell purchased University Microfilms International in the 1980s. UMI produced a product called ProQuest. In the 2000s, Bell & Howell decided to focus on their information technology businesses. The imaging business was sold to Eastman Kodak , and the international mail business was sold to Pitney Bowes . On June 6, 2001, Bell & Howell became a ProQuest Company, which
768-461: The motion picture industry. The Bell & Howell 2709 was the first all metal, commercially available motion picture camera. The 2709 was so expensive that only Charlie Chaplin and three other people owned one, while the rest were owned by studios. Bell & Howell introduced products that improved the quality of projected images in a movie theater. The Kinodrome 35-mm projector mechanism, introduced in 1907, steadied projected images and reduced
800-610: The product line-up . See Canon FL lenses for the product line-up . Note: Even though the tilt-shift and dedicated macro lenses are designated TS-E and MP-E respectively, these lenses are still compatible with the EF mount. Applications bundled with Canon Digital Cameras and printers include: Released in 1992, Canon TrueType Font Pack is a 3½-inch 1,44 MB floppy disk collection of supplementary truetype fonts bundled in selling box of some Canon printers of years '90 and useful for Windows 3.1 and 95 . The fonts contained in
832-411: The product line-up . See Canon EF-S lenses for the product line-up . EF-S lenses are built for APS-C 1.6x crop sensors, so they only work with models that use this sensor size. When EF-S lenses are used on a 35mm (full frame) camera the back element will hit the mirror assembly or cause substantial vignetting since the sensor is bigger than the image produced by the lens. See Canon FD lenses for
864-508: The sale of Bell and Howell to Boston-based WestView Capital Partners ("WestView"). Bell & Howell marketed a specially designed Apple II Plus computer to the educational market beginning in July 1979. The modified Apple had additional security elements for classroom use such as a tamper-proof cover. The case color was black but the inside was a standard Apple II Plus. The modified Apple II became known colloquially among computer enthusiasts as
896-425: The same family, but possibly incompatible to some degree, and also makes it difficult to ascertain whether a device is unique or part of an existing family. The software driver filename will often use the family designation. Some MP devices have fax capability (MP740). R=remote The DS700 and DS810 are inkjet printers ; all the other models are thermal dye-sublimation printers . See Canon EF lenses for
928-449: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S450&oldid=1213480975 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
960-476: The top-end Retina series (later going to full lenses). Canon offered four lens options: 35mm f/3.5, 50mm f/1.8, 95mm f/3.5, and 125mm f/3.5. Through the lens metering was center weighted and automatic exposure was shutter speed priority. Only two cameras were offered and the line was not successful. Canon developed and produced the Canon FD lens mount standard for film SLR cameras from 1971 to replace
992-407: Was eventually discontinued, and computers belonging to the series are valued by collectors. Canon printers are supplied with Canon Advanced Printing Technology (CAPT), a printer driver software stack developed by Canon. The company claims that its use of data compression reduces their printer's memory requirement, good quality compared to conventional laser printers, and also claim that it increases
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1024-526: Was then a publicly traded company, but is now a subsidiary of the private Cambridge Information Group . In September 2001, the remaining industrial businesses along with the Bell & Howell name were sold to private equity firm Glencoe Capital. The company merged with the North American arm of Böwe Systec Inc. In 2003, Böwe Systec later acquired the entire company. It was known as Böwe Bell & Howell until 2011, when Versa Capital Management bought
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