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 From: edward_ohare@nospam.yahoo.com.invalid 
  
 On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:17:46 -0400, Alan Browne 
  wrote: 
  
 >edward ohare wrote: 
 > 
 >> 
 >> But it provides the same advantage as a reflex concerning the viewing 
 >> of the image for composition.  It seems to me its the feature and the 
 >> benefit it provides that matters, not how its done. 
 >> 
 >> It is most curious you're attacking this on a design issue while the 
 >> feature/benefit remains the same, while including rangefinders which 
 >> do not have the benefit of the SLR design that the G3 has. 
 > 
 >We've stomped all over these issues already.  The G3 as wonderful 
 >as it is, cannot cover what can be covered with a DSLR. 
  
  
  
 Years ago, the 35mm SLR crowd hauled around mutiple non-zoom lenses 
 because zooms weren't very good.  Zooms got better.  Oh, but they were 
 variable aperature, and that wasn't good enough.  Finally, years 
 later, guess what?  SLR people are hauling around multiple zooms. 
 Often with variable aperature.  And now the argument is anything with 
 single zoom isn't good enough.  Since the community has eventually 
 adopted what it once claimed was intolerable, wouldn't it be expected 
 to eventually figure a single zoom was OK?  (Well, no, of course not, 
 history is no predictor of the future, eh?) 
  
  
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 himself up and carry on. -- Winston Churchill 
  
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