I don't use the acronym EVIL as it has negative connotations. Cute though the irrepressible Luddites who prefer SLR cameras might be about it, I don't like negative connotations applied to equipment categories.
MILC and MILF are easily misconstrued and similarly subject to some rather rude jokes. More negatives The transposition of EVIL to LIVE (Lens Interchangable-Viewfinder Electronic) is positive and describes precisely the camera type, excluding types such as SLR and RF digital cameras. It also is a term used in electronic display information displays such as LIVE Histogram, etc. But who the hell ever bothers actually listening to reasoned and sensible naming like this? Instead we have people calling anything that doesn't have a reflex viewfinder system a "rangefinder", people calling a sophisticated camera like Konica-Minolta A2 a "point and shoot", and all kinds of other such twaddle. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > Not quite. Some naive folks have changed MILC (Mirrorless > Interchangeable Lens Camera) to MILF (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens > Format). No amount of references to Google seem to deter them. > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:20 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The best acronym ever. Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens. >> >> On 8/8/2011 12:46 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Boris Liberman<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> A co-worker of mine, after lots of consultations and deliberations >>>> finally >>>> got herself Panasonic G3 with standard kit lens (14-42/3.5-5.6). Few days >>>> ago I had honors of playing with it. I am pretty much overwhelmed with >>>> surprise... Took me close to no time to figure this one out. AF works >>>> wonderfully, electronic viewfinder is convenient, the ergonomics are >>>> good, >>>> the build it solid - this thing is pretty darn excellent. >>> >>> Glad you liked it. I played with a G3 for the first time just the >>> other day. It's a very interesting development from my G1 ... smaller >>> in the hand, tighter feeling, etc. Kind of a melding of the GF1 and G1 >>> models in my experience. I expect it is a very good camera, and now >>> there is a very nice range of native Micro-FourThirds prime lenses to >>> work with it (12/2, 14/2.5, 18/2.8, 20/1.7, 25/1.4, 45/2.8 Macro, and >>> 45/1.8) and a good range of zooms from both Olympus and Panasonic, >>> never mind its ability to use nearly any other lens via adaptation. >>> >>> The interchangeable lens, all electronic digital camera age is upon >>> us. I know no one agrees on what to call this new camera category with >>> half a dozen acronyms like EVIL, MILC, etc, but I call it "Lens >>> Interchangeable - Viewfinder Electronic" or LIVE. >> >> >> -- >> Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! >> >> --Marvin the Martian. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
