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What does EOS mean?


What does the Canon term EOS stand for?


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October 08, 2002

 

Jon Close
  Per the company history at the Canon online camera museum (http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/index.html),

"The development project was called "EOS (Electro Optical System)." The "EOS" is also the name of the goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, even more apropos for the new-generation SLR camera."


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October 08, 2002

 

doug Nelson
  As a Canon fan who got left out in the cold with manual focus FD lenses that don't fit current cameras, I'd think EOS stands for Enable Obsolescence Sooner.


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October 11, 2002

 
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