At 05:04 PM 2/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Nikon is the clear winner with 10 letters to Canon's 9. We will just have to spur Canon on to produce a much longer acronym. Twenty plus letters should be enough to squash the competition into oblivion! There is noting quite like taking absurdity to the next level... :)At 10:47 PM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:>Unfortunately not these days. It took Canon a year to get the first DO
>lens to market and it's taking Nikon that long for the 70-200mm f/2.8
>G-AFS ED-IF VR.
>
>Henry Posner
Geez! Do they have enough abbreviation letters after that? At some point
even the pros have got to start laughing... "I have the new 70-200, 2.8,
G-AFV, no, UHF, no, uh, um, damn and I practiced for hours to memorize that!"
How's this: Canon 400mm f/4 DO-IS EF USM. :-) -- -Henry Posner
Cheers,
Rick
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