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

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