EOS ?

[Denny G]

Can someone please tell me what the letters E O S stand for?

[timmyquest]

I'm pretty sure it's not an acronym, rather it stems from mythology:

EOS: Goddess of the Dawn. Her tears are the morning dew.

Daughter of HYPERION and THEA, she's married to the blustery Wind God ASTRAEUS and has four windy sons: BOREAS, EURUS, NOTUS and ZEPHYRUS. She's a bit flighty herself, having been cursed with nymphomania by APHRODITE.

She made the mistake of fancying ARES, which was the cause of the curse, and had to make do with a mortal husband, TITHONUS. The shame of it. She pleaded with ZEUS to grant him immortality, but forgot about the ageism clause. So poor TITHONUS just got older and older and increasingly withery.

Eventually the Gods took pity and he is now a cicada. Before this they did manage to produce two sons, MEMNON and Emathion. These did not bring any benefits. MEMNON got killed by Achilles and Emathion by HERACLES.

So EOS carries on weeping and this in turn ensures there is never any shortage of dew.

[sGu]

or in Canon's eyes: Electronic Optical System?

[timmyquest]

or in Canon's eyes: Electronic Optical System?

:grin: :grin: :grin:

[Tom W]

I believe this is the corrected version:



EOS: Goddess of the Lens. Her tears are aspheric Ultra-low dispersion.

Daughter of Concave and Convex, she's married to the blustery Camera God Canon and has four windy sons: Wide Anglus, Normalus, Telephotous and Macrous. She's a bit flighty herself, and sometimes lacks focus.

She made the mistake of fancying Nikon, which was the cause of the curse, and had to make do with a mortal husband, Sigmus. The shame of it. She pleaded with Zeiss to grant him immortality, but forgot about the reverse engineering claus. So poor Sigmus just got older and older and increasingly incompatible.

Eventually the Gods took pity and he is now a cicada. Before this they did manage to produce two sons, Tamron and Tokina. These did not bring any benefits. Tamron got killed by Imagus Stabilus and Tokina by Zeiss.

So EOS carries on weeping and this in turn ensures there is never any shortage of ultra-low dispersion aspheric lens elements.

[cmM]

electro-optical system

[mdude85]

I believe this is the corrected version:

lol! do you mind if I use this in my AIM profile and provide credit?

[Tom W]

lol! do you mind if I use this in my AIM profile and provide credit?
Feel free. I was feeling a bit creative for a few minutes - anything to avoid writing all those Christmas cards. :)

[EoSD30fReAk]

I believe this is the corrected version:
ROFL too funny Tom

[CyberDyneSystems]

Canon did in fact have the Gods in mind when naming it EOS... so Timmy is quite right,...

Canon in fact comes from another GOD.. the original name for the camera compoany was Kwanon = Kwannon Godddes of Mercy.

This is not to say that Electrical Optical System is not correct.. it of course is...

It's just that the root of the acronym is a Goddess. :)

[timmyquest]

Canon did in fact have the Gods in mind when naming it EOS... so Timmy is quite right,...

Canon in fact comes from another GOD.. the original name for the camera compoany was Kwanon = Kwannon Godddes of Mercy.

This is not to say that Electrical Optical System is not correct.. it of course is...

It's just that the root of the acronym is a Goddess. :)


I feel slightly better now. :cool: