On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Keith Whaley wrote: > alex wetmore wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Steve Desjardins wrote: > > > IF DSLR prices don't come down much more than $800 or so, then the > > > low-end SLR market could be taken over by the ZLR style camera. > > If an SLR is a single lens reflex and a DSLR is a digital version of the > aforementioned, what the heck is a Z-lens reflex? > Probably tied to some Pentax nomencature, as they seem fond of Z-this > and that-Z, just to be different from the European way of designating models.
Zoom lens reflex. I think Olympus came out with this terminology when they introduced the IS-1000 10 years or so ago. Basically an SLR camera with a fixed lens. alex
