Dpreview.com met up with one of Canon Inc’s most high ranking executives, Director and Chief Executive of Image Communication Products Operations, Masaya Maeda, at Photokina for a wide-ranging conversation about current and future developments in compact and SLR digital cameras. Mr Maeda has been with Canon Inc since 1974 and is currently the head of the entire camera division, covering both DSC and the EOS DSLR system.

Photographer Fair Photokina - Approximately 1,600 suppliers from 45 countries coming to photokina 2006 to present the global imaging sector’s top new products. - Photo credit: global-metropolis.net
The following interview has been edited for clarity and to remove the many areas we covered that are, for the time being, ‘off the record’.
Read the complete interview HERE.





















