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June 29, 2006
Say Good-Bye to 'DSLR'
It's time we said good-bye to the "D" in "DSLR". DSLR, short for Digital Single-Lens Reflex, refers to the fact that these upper-end cameras no longer rely on film.
The majority of cameras sold on the planet haven't relied on film for years now (since 2003, to be exact), so why do we need to refer to these things as digital cameras or digital SLRs?
We stopped carefully calling them electric drills and electric typewriters a long time ago -- now, you have to explicitly specify the manual version of either if that's what you mean, as electric is assumed. It's the same with electronic calculators (when's the last time you saw a mechanical one?).
Therefore, I propose we start referring to digital cameras as just "cameras" (and, accordingly, digital SLRs are just "SLRs") and begin referring to film cameras, as the minority in the category, explicitly as such.
So...can I sell you my old FSLR?
Posted by Craig in Photography