“Year of the Digital SLR?”

Popular Photography has an article on the question “Have we entered the Year of the Digital SLR?”. There’re some interesting bits in there, including the apparent equivalency that a traditional analog SLR would be comparable to a 20 MP digicam.This was my favorite part, though:

And 2002 could turn out to be the year of the affordable digital SLR (or, as Japanese designers would say, “Kotoshi wa digital SLR yasuhunarimasu!”). […]

That quote just came out of nowhere, and I’m not even sure what it means. But, I like it ;).