"Pat" <gro...@artisticphotography.us> wrote in message

> When I was young, we had "unleaded" and regular gasoline.  At sometime
> "regular" just disappears and we had unleaded.  Now, "regular" IS
> "unleaded" and leaded gas doesn't exist -- and if it did, it was be
> called "leaded", not "regular".  As times have changed, our names have
> changed, too.

> Digital SLRs became dSLRs and SLRs remained the same.  Meanwhile,
> digital P&Ss just became P&Ss, not dP&Ss, without any troubled or
> problem distiguishing the cameras.

> Now the dSLRs are the primary type of SLRs, I wonder when/if they will
> become SLRs and the "d" will be dropped.  When that happens, do we
> called the old film cameras fSLRs?

> So when/if do you think the name change will occur and dSLRs will just
> be SLRs?  Or, do you think the mirror will disappear and they will
> become something like SLCs (single lens cameras)?