> > > . . . Canon made a marketing decision to > deliberately drop support for some functions in the 300D. > > But their decision not to support the new wide-angle on the existing > bodies is a technical one. That lens protrudes too deeply into the lens > mount, and owuld interfere with the mirror. The 300D has a complex > mirror mechanism that allow it to "clear" the rear-element of the new > wide-angle.
Is that true? Or does it just have a smaller mirror?