Defining CSC

I came across a new (to me) abbreviation in Amateur Photographer magazine 30 April, p. 7: "DSLRS survive CSC mauling".

AP uses CSC as an abbreviation for compact system camera.

Is this a widely understood abbreviation?

Does it cover a different class of camera from what we call "point and shoot"? The article offers the Lumix DMC-G2 as an example of a CSC; I would not have put that into the same class as the little P&S cameras that most people use for holiday and family snaps.

I'm not really in touch with mainstream digital photography, but I like to have an accurate idea of the definition of abbreviations.

Thanks,

Martin

CSC = EVIL.
Mirrorless cameras with interchangeble lenses, usually m4/3rds. Definitely not Point and Shoot.

What does CSC stand for?
I'm trying my bst but can't figure it out...

Compact System Camera

Thanks... my eyes aren't what they used to be

Define CSC:

"Yet another attempt by the numpties at AP trying desperatley to be 'different' to all other UK photo mags"

The trouble is that EVIL (electronic viewfinder interchangeable lens) is not an abbreviation that manufacturers would like and also is not entirely accurate as many of theses cameras do not have built in EVFs.

Eventually the market place will settle upon a suitable term. Many people are happier when there are clear boxes to put things in.

Technically the LCD screen is a viewfinder and electronic, is it not?

I don't think so in this context. That is, as a replacement for a pentaprism or other optical viewfinder. That implies an eye-level view and all EVFs are very small, with an eyepiece for viewing.

A screen on the back of a camera has never been called an EVF. I think we know what a viewfinder is.

I think it's in the grey zone the EVF.
A viewfinder is something you look through to see the image, you clear look on the LCD on the back but since there are still lenses with an EVF you at least can't look on the LCD of the EVF without looking through something so it's a viewfinder.
(most likely technically speaking...)

I see that Wikipedia has settled for the expression: "mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera (MILC)". I suppose that MILC would be a more acceptable acronym than EVIL, in the commercially-sensitive world. It also avoids the niggles about EVFs. The wikipedia article does not mention the expression Compact System Camera.

Thanks to all for clarifying what the term Compact Camera System (CSC) means in general. Clearly not a "P&S" nor a "bridge" camera. It remains to be seen what will survive in Darwinian evolutionary terms.

Stefan: I guess that you will have to add a couple of new acronyms to your already extensive CPPAA list! I shall have to think about adding them to the Wikipedia "List of abbreviations in photography".

Regards,

Martin