SLR -> SLE ...is that dificult?

We talking about TYPOLOGY, not technology! Because technologies, there will be always thousands of them!

SLR = Single Lens Reflex

DSLR = Digital Single Lens Reflex

SLE = Single Lens Electronic

...is that difficult to understand?

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Helder Neves

You forgot one: TLR = Twin Lens Reflex.

It's important because it's why SLRs are called SLRs (so named when viewing & recording through a single lens was cutting edge technology).

The name SLE does fit, but only in reference to the previous generation. But why saddle this class with a name that points back to TLRs? I can understand why dSLR's use the name because they are still using those dinosaur parts (lens & pentaprism). But this generation has nothing to do with that. Let's take advantage of this opportunity and not call this a "Non-TLR, Non-Reflex" camera.

• Also a proud M4/3 user, but not because of its sensor size.

Zuzullo said:

We talking about TYPOLOGY, not technology! Because technologies, there will be always thousands of them!

SLR = Single Lens Reflex

DSLR = Digital Single Lens Reflex

SLE = Single Lens Electronic

...is that difficult to understand?

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Good thinking, or maybe SLL, single lens lcd. Then do we really need
'single lens' anymore ? How many twin lens digitals ?

Zuzullo said:

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a proud M43 user.
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Helder Neves

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In the beginning was the rhythm but I had forgotten and was waiting for the beat.

Then it should be DSL, shouldn't it?
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SLE isn't good because it doesn't narrow the field at all. Every digital camera out there, from the iPhone to the top of the line Nikon is a "single lens electronic" camera.

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SLE is good enough but indeed the sensor size is most important and then maybe those cameras should be referred as:

SLE 35mm,
SLE 23mm,
SLE 17mm

and so on
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Personally I think SLD works as Single-Lens Digital. Single-Lens was originated from using a single lens instead of a twin-lens. Both having to do with cameras that had interchangeable lenses. SLR is Single-Lens Reflex, but is commonly known to mean Single 'Interchangeable' Lens Reflex. The reflex is the path to the eye. Direct could mean digital or mechanical. Digital means it has a digital way of seeing the image instead of reflex through a prism (mechanical) So using digital instead of direct implies electronic (viewfinder).

Since Single-Lens has come to mean a single interchangeable lens. And digital is electronic. So in my view the closet thing to the time honored moniker Single-Lens Reflex is Single-Lens Digital. And it rolls off the tongue as easy as SLR. When saying SLD, the "D" naturally has the emphasis just like the R did. In fact the D has slightly more. The "D" applied to almost anything camera has come to mean digital. D3, ID, D60, 5D and etc. "D" means digital. And digital reflex cameras have come to be known as DSLR, a slight tongue twister. By removing the R of reflex and moving the time-honored D of digital to takes it's place one is told that something has changed in the formula, but it still means single lens and digital.

Personally I am convinced this would be the easiest for the consumer to understand with minimal education. And not to be confused with the newer yet fast time honor Point and Shoot. PS. This is not PS, but SLD. With the digital (electronic) viewfinder instead of the reflex (mechanical) viewfinder.

Just my personal interpretation.

YMMV