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Desil digitial electronic sensor w interchangeable lenses

But E-P1, E-P2, E-PL1, and GF1 don’t have built-in EVF…

How about these?

DISLL = Digital Interchangeable Single Lens Liveview
DISLR = Digital Interchangeable Single Lens Reflex (I don’t agree with this.)
DSLD (1) = Digital Single Lens Digital
DSLD (2) = Digital Single Lens Direct
DSLE = Digital Single Lens Electric
DSLM = Digital Single Lens Mirrorless
DSLL = Digital Single Lens Liveview
DSLN = Digital Single Lens Non-reflect
ISLD = Interchangeable Single Lens Digital
LVS = Live View System
SILD = Single Interchangeable Lens Digital
SLD = Single Lens Digital (this means the rear of the lens is digital instead of reflect mirror.)
SLLV = Single Lens Live View

(from Korean sites)

Of course, these are not charming idears!

It’s really unfortunate that so many people voted for EVIL. Arguably, they all have electronic viewfinders (the screen on the back is electronic, and it’s a viewfinder of sorts), but EVIL is a really, really dumb acronym.

It’s dumb because the word it appears to be based on (“evil”) has nothing to do with compact, mirrorless, interchangeable-lens cameras. If we were all AGAINST these cameras and thought they were “evil” then it would be a cute acronym.

But as it is, it sets up a huge, clanging dissonance between what you *are* saying (compact, mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera) and what you *appear* to be saying (this camera is inherently bad and will cause bad things to happen).

The only merit to this acronym is that it’s cute and spells out a word. But if the word is misleading, it nullifies that merit. More importantly, an acronym does not HAVE to spell out a word! SLR, DSLR, TLR, IRS, SPCA, on, and on, we have acronyms that do not spell out a word, but we know what they are and what they mean.

Acronyms *hardly ever* spell out a recognizable word, and when they do the risk of them being misunderstood is increased. This stupid “EVIL” acronym is being perpetuated by a bunch of people who get a chuckle out of how clever they feel, but all they’re doing is adding confusion to the language and confounding people who are trying to learn about photography.

That’s my rant, and I stand by it. Even if a law is passed, I will never refer to this kind of camera as “EVIL.” >:-/

the best is still missing – call it simply
DSC = Digital System Camera
This would cover i.e. Ricoh GXR, too.

EVIL
yes!!!!!

To use an acronym is not sexy.
If we indicate this type of machine by an acronym, it would be the only ones next to the Compact and the other Reflex. It would be depreciating, as to indicate one under kind.

I learnt that to indicate a thing we use a word, to indicate the other one we use another word, to remain clear. The Compact and other names have a precise sense and cannot be thus reused without confusion.
If for the moment, these new devices have still a shape close to cameras, very fast they will have to innovate to take into account ergonomic needs of the video.

It is for these reasons that I defends the term of Hybrid, which can decline according to needs in Hybrid-Compact ( E-P1), Hybrid-Reflex ( GH1), Hybrid-Scope why not for future models to the different ergonomics.

The English language is flawed in not properly allowing for composite words, so everything is expressed in separate words and there are countless 3-letter-abbreviations.

German on the other hand does, so I propose the name Direktsichtkamera (direct view camera) or Wechselobjektivkompaktkamera (interchangeable lens compact camera).
You people may start to learn the pronounciation now.

“mirror-less” doesn’t make any sense, because in the same way, one could call these new cameras “watermelon-less”, because they lack a watermelon.

(More technically, it requires awareness of a different kind of camera that HAS a mirror. And nothing should be dependent on something else in order to be understood.)

As I might be the one (or one of a crowd) to suggest “LIVE” as a name for the new type of cameras, I would like to argue a bit more.

Originally Olympus made up the phrase: “Liveview” to express the new ways/invention that hit the market for, was it only – 2 years ago?
The marketing phrase: LIVEVIEW was very quick adopted by all the cameramakers, and so this particular feature in modern cameras is just called: Liveview and everybody knows what your talking about.

Now I think a new positive acronym is in place for the new mirrorless cameas with electronic viewfinders.

This name is a ‘Live’ model. Not a DSLR or whatever.
Many people has argued against EVIL, with much wisedom, and I totally agree. EVIL is a bad name with many other assosiations.

LIVE is somthing differnet, first: It’s not bad. It’s not LiveView, it’s just a LIVE-type of camera
It could be amusing to see a new vote for LIVE contra EVIL
Lenses: Interchangeable
Viewfinder: Electronic

Regards Jan Morgils.