What Does EOS Mean on a Canon Digital SLR Camera?

Canon EOS camera and lens.

Anyone who has been researching Canon digital SLR cameras, will have noticed many of their names have the letters EOS attached to them. For example, EOS 30D, EOS 1D Mark lll, EOS Rebel etc. But what does EOS mean exactly? Some rumors have it that Canon originally named these cameras after the goddess of ‘dawn’ […]