XPost: rec.photo.digital 
 From: jeremy@exit109.com 
  
   wrote: 
  
 >> 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. 
 > 
 > I don't know that is true.  But even if it were true, is that 
 > sufficient reason a priori to exclude such discussion? 
  
 It makes about as much sense to me as "excluding" discussion about choosing 
 the proper feed for your horse.  That is to say, why would someone want to 
 discuss it there? 
  
 A camera like the E20, despite being technically an SLR, has more in common 
 with the "ZLR" type of camera; it's going to be used in the same way, and 
 talked about in the same way. 
  
 >> 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? 
 > 
 > Well, that depends.  Is the advice good? 
  
 That same advice could be applied to most of the questions from p&s 
 camera users in rec.photo.digital.  Is it good advice then? 
  
 > I do not believe that an assumption that people with Digital Rebels 
 > have fundamentally different kinds of discussions from people with 
 > E20s is justifiable. 
  
 I have *never* seen an E20 discussed as an SLR.  I had to go to dpreview 
 just to verify my recollection that it was one at all. 
  
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