Can someone please tell me what the letters E O S stand for?
DennyG Goldmember  1,870 posts Likes: 5 Joined Jul 2004 Location: On the border - US/Mexico More info | Dec 12, 2004 10:45 | #1 Can someone please tell me what the letters E O S stand for?
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timmyquest Goldmember 4,172 posts Joined Dec 2003 Location: Outside of Chicago More info | Dec 12, 2004 11:15 | #2  Permanent banI'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. Capturing life a fraction of a second at a time
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sGu Goldmember  2,372 posts Joined May 2004 Location: Manchester, UK More info | or in Canon's eyes: Electronic Optical System? Beautifully Ordinary | Gu Photography | Still + Motion Pictures
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timmyquest Goldmember 4,172 posts Joined Dec 2003 Location: Outside of Chicago More info | Permanent ban sGu wrote: or in Canon's eyes: Electronic Optical System? Capturing life a fraction of a second at a time
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TomW Canon Fanosapien  12,749 posts Likes: 30 Joined Feb 2003 Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee More info | I believe this is the corrected version: timmyquest wrote: 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. Tom
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cmM Goldmember  5,705 posts Joined Apr 2004 Location: Chicago / San Francisco More info | electro-optical system
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mdude85 Senior Member 391 posts Joined Jul 2004 More info | Tom W wrote: I believe this is the corrected version: lol! do you mind if I use this in my AIM profile and provide credit?
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TomW Canon Fanosapien 12,749 posts Likes: 30 Joined Feb 2003 Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee More info | mdude85 wrote: 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. Tom
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EoSD30fReAk Goldmember  2,198 posts Likes: 2 Joined Aug 2003 Location: Netherlands More info | Tom W wrote: I believe this is the corrected version: ROFL too funny Tom Photography is my way to relax
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CyberDyneSystems Admin (type T-2000)  More info | Dec 18, 2004 21:30 | #10 Canon did in fact have the Gods in mind when naming it EOS... so Timmy is quite right,... GEAR LIST
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timmyquest Goldmember 4,172 posts Joined Dec 2003 Location: Outside of Chicago More info | Permanent ban CyberDyneSystems wrote: 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. 
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