On Jul 11, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
If Canon's changes were so unpredictable and so difficult to keep in
compliance with, how come the same Canon lens produced in 1985 works
flawlessly on the latest Canon EOS body, despite 20 years of
unpredictable body changes and no change to the lens at all?
Well that's obvious: They're not unpredictable to those *inside* Canon
Corp!
Having worked for a large computer manufacturing concern myself for
over a decade, I think you have a bit of a misconception going on
there ... ;-)
Godfrey