Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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 ... ;-)
I'm talking software rather than hardware. In the "Microsoftean" sense. :) It's well known that Microsoft has used its inside knowledge of its operating system to make its own office applications like Word and Excel work better in Windows than the competition. Thus the demise (for all practical purposes) of WordPerfect, Lotus 123, etc. I have little doubt that Canon is not above that same kind of tactics with their camera gear, and using an all-electronic interface between the camera and lens makes that easier. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
