Canon EOS or Volkswagen Eos? Just a comment.

<p>I saw the VW Eos commerical last night during the Angels-Yankers game. I hear "eos" and looked up thinking was a Canon commercial, but was for VW auto, pronounced and spelled the same way. I always thought there were problems with cars like Probe, Baretta, Escort, lol. I guess the German engineers never heard of EOS, good luck with the lawsuit. Or maybe VW and Canon can team up and give away a Mark IV with the Eos car or vice versa.</p>

<p>Also I saw a "sounds of october" video during a commerical break, shot around the california stadium, went behind a motor driven FILM slr....kinda funny to hear the long whine of a film slr motor drive. Seems like it was set on 4- 5fps, couldnt tell if it was nikon or canon went so fast. I've been searching for the video on mlb.com, I guess there's always the possibility they added film motordrive sound effect to dslr, I've seen that on TV programs.</p>

<p>Maybe the new EOS 1D MKIV will have the option of motor drive sound effects. Helps models know when to change pose...</p>

<p>Will it also pause every 36 exposures and play a film-rewinding sound? I'd buy that :-)</p>

<p>Or in fact the Titanic Goddess of the Dawn, from greek mythology?</p>

<p>Earlier today, I found a car called "ASA 1000" (<a href="http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15299/ASA-1000.aspx">link</a> ). Did Bertone ever do a camera, I wonder? I know Porsche did the Contax RTS.<br /> Canon in some early advertising played on the name as being something like "Electronic Optical System" (it was the "development code name") <strong>as well as</strong> the "<a href="http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/history/eos20th/index.html">Goddess of Dawn</a> " but I can't find a copy of it right now.</p>

<p>Canon EOS is an abbreviation for Electro-Optical System, while VW Eos is from a mythological god http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eos Two completely different words and meanings.</p>

<p>Maybe Canon can work this connection into their rebate program?A lot of people could use a new car but the last thing most folks need is another printer.</p>

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<p>Canon EOS is an abbreviation for Electro-Optical System, while VW Eos is from a mythological god</p>

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<p>If you will only look at the Canon site at the "Goddess of Dawn" link above, you will see that they are NOT two completely different things--Canon used both, intentionally.</p><div></div>

<p>On the other hand, I think that "Rebel" is more suitable for model name of automobile. Canon US, please consider to use 400D, 500D as the rest of the world!</p>

<p>"during the Angels-Yankers game"</p>

<p>They are doing pretty good for a bunch of Yankers.</p>

<p>EOS has been a pretty good name for Canon. They zoomed to number 1 position over Nikon.</p>

<p>Volkswagen may overtake Toyota as the number 1 seller of cars.</p>

<p>I've never really thought about it. But I shoot with a Canon EOS 5DM2 and I drive a 2008 VW Eos Lux. I think there was a short-lived, business class only airline called Eos as well. Never flew it though.</p>