Slightly O/T...TLR question

[cp_ste.croix]

ok...so SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex, the reflex being the mirror that moves in the camera body, right?

why then are TLR's called reflex cameras as the point of having 2 lenses is that there needs be no moving mirror?

Sorry if this is an inane question, but it has been bugging me. 🙂

 

[J.Ed]

While there is no moving mirror, there is one present.

 

[cp_ste.croix]

I get that there is a mirror in there, but there is also a non-moving mirror in an RF camera...the reflex part of the name refers specifically to the movement of the mirror, does it not?


were TLR's named/invented before SLR's?

i wish i could shut my brain off sometimes :bang:

 

[FrankS]

the reflex part of the name refers specifically to the movement of the mirror, does it not?
No, it means the whole ground glass image has been reflected by a mirror. (The mirror in a RF camera only relects the rangefinder patch image.)

were TLR's named/invented before SLR's?
Yes.

 

[cp_ste.croix]

ahhhhh! Thanks Frank! For perhaps obvious reasons, the word reflex has been forever linked in my mind with something snapping upwards.

 

[Roman]

Think of reflection, instead of medicine...

Roman

 

[FrankS]

Think of reflection, instead of stimulation...