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Canon and Nikon. Sometimes it’s due to personal relationships and owed favors that would be dishonorable to ignore.

• kristianp 2y ago
  Can you think of an example where they helped each other? It's not an easy topic to google.
  • kergonath 2y ago
    The closest I can think of is Nikon making the lenses for the first Canon cameras. I don’t really have a source for that offhand, though.
    • Someone 2y ago
      https://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/nikon_canon.htm https://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/... claims that was because they weren’t competitors yet: “Unfortunately, Nikon had not yet perfected a camera body. In fact, there was no Japanese camera that could compliment the NIKKOR lens. Then one day, Canon found its way to Nikon's door. The courtship was short and in 1934, the marriage was struck. The result you are seeing here: The first Japanese 35mm camera, which was made in 1935, and its Nikkor 50mm F3.5 lens. NlKKOR lenses continued to be used in Canon cameras until 1948, when Nikon created its first camera, the Nikon 1.”
      • hypercube33 2y ago
        I'm also not sure if it qualifies as help but Nikon F80 was used by Kodak and Fuji to make digital cameras on the Nikon F mount system for many years. We know what happened to Kodak, but Fuji went on to make their own successful cameras and lenses for the same market