Well... Sedan, Cabriolet, Coupe amd Limousine were all types of horse-drawn carriages that we still apply to types of cars.

One still flies (or some trains) coach.

Though it's also still technically appropriate, Wireless networking in some sense borrows the name from early radio.

Some (old fogies, undoubtedly) still call mobile phones "Cellular" though in many cases the technology is *not* cellular any more.

And so on. There are many *many* more examples of this. Photography is not unique at all in this respect.


Old terms live for a long time. Not because they're technically correct, but because they name a thing and the ability for a groupd to identify what another means is more important than staying up to date. The new comers must learn the "old" termonology.

Oh, and if you don't know the terms.... you're not a Photographer, you're just some one who takes digital pictures. Not the same thing. :-)

In a box.

If you rely on code-completion in your IDE, that should count as referring to language docs. These days, for anything other than the trivial task, docs or code-completion are nearly a requirement. Even if you live and breath a modern language and associated libraries, almost no-one can remember the signature of *every* function, all the methods of every class etc. Hell, even the most commonly used methods might constitute several hundred functions. Too much to remember all that, plus the architecture of the application your building.