Most people say automobiles and not cars and when were jets ever called propless aeroplanes? Never as far as I'm aware. I anycase, I suspect most people already just refer to their camera and only use mirrorless when needing to distinguish their camera from other types. Or maybe we should say cameras and DSLRs?
That's been brought up here before, and it wasn't time then. Is today different?
Give it another twenty years and mirrorless cameras will dominate to such an extent that people will have stopped saying mirrorless.
The very word "camera" has evolved from the latin word for room or chamber, from the original term "camera obscura", meaning dark chamber
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I’ve no doubts that’s regional. In the US (at least in my region), people will say car, truck, suv, or van before they say, “automobile” Too many syllables. Who’s got the time?
The solution was proposed many years ago
Yes, that sounds good.
Reminds me of my first (and best) photo book, Heinz Temmler: 'Der grosse Photohelfer', 1954:
In the UK, hardly anyone says "automobile". Phil gives his location as Wales, so I think he should know that! I don't think the Welsh use that word any more than the English do.
Perhaps it’s social circles vs regions.
Still keeps mirrorless in the acronym, which is what the OP was proposing to move away from.
Yes but Single Lens Refleax cameras were still called as such, years after Twin Lens Reflex cameras had ceased production. And for that matter, DSLR is still being used years after SLRs ceased production.
