XPost: rec.photo.digital 
 From: jeremy@exit109.com 
  
   wrote: 
  
 > I think the problem that Lionel and I have is that it's not clear what 
 > the intent actually is.  Serious photographers, yes -- meaning those 
 > who don't just want a point-n-shoot to send photographs of the kids to 
 > grandma.  But I would expect that applies to E20 users just as much as 
 > Digital Rebel. 
  
 Yes, and it can also apply to users of compact cameras, or medium format 
 cameras, or view cameras, but that's not actually the intent of the 
 proposal.  An E20 user can be just as serious about photography as a 
 Digital Rebel user, but the two aren't likely to find the same discussions 
 equally useful, any more than a view camera user (digital or not) will 
 find the discussions in the proposed group useful, or any more than a 
 compact camera user (however serious) will find them useful.  They're 
 just not used and talked about in the same way.  Users of a hypothetical 
 digital Leica M8, however, will probably find themselves right at home 
 in the proposed group -- that kind of camera is used by the same sort 
 of people in the same ways and presents the same kind of topics. 
  
 How do you think your E20 user is going to feel after the tenth time 
 he's told he can solve his problem by getting a different camera, one 
 he probably doesn't even want?  Don't you think he might rather get 
 advice from similar users that he might find actually useful?  How 
 much of that is there going to be in the proposed group? 
  
 On the other hand, a Leica rangefinder user is going to be in the same 
 place, discussion-wise, as the rest of the folks in the proposed group, 
 so it makes no sense to exclude him just because we don't happen to have 
 a simple word that covers both technical types of cameras.  Creating an 
 arbitrary division of discussion based on something that has nothing to 
 do with the way people discuss things is a bad idea. 
  
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