XPost: rec.photo.digital 
 From: jpmcw@comcast.net 
  
 ru.igarashi@usask.ca wrote: 
  
 > In news.groups Alan Browne  wrote: 
 > 
 >>Alan Browne wrote: 
 > 
 > 
 >>>National Geographic: "Any SLR includes a broad range of lenses, flash 
 >>>units [...]" p. 42 of the Nat Geo Photography Field Guide.  That 
 >>>"general" description is every bit as valid as your books general 
 >>>description. 
 > 
 > 
 >>In the quote above, I had left out the word <>.  The 
 >>corrext quotation is: 
 >>"Any SLR system includes a broad range of lenses, flash units [...]" 
 > 
 > 
 > Ok, then, how about RPD.slr-systems? 
 > 
 > I am also uneasy about the seemingly arbitrary exclusions and inclusions 
 > in this proposal with respect to the group name, from the group creation 
 > perspective. 
 > 
 The definition that Guy supplied also contained these words: 
  
 "The SLR cameras also offer the ability for the photographer to quickly 
 and simply change the lens, thus making them versatile." 
  
 I see only quite minor problems with the definition, and not 
 arbitrariness, with the possible exception of specifically adding in 
 potential rangefinders, that being confusing to those who might choose 
 to be confused- or argumentative. 
  
 I do believe that the term SLR has evolved sufficiently- at least in the 
 US and UK, from my own knowledge, that it's going to be misunderstood 
 only with some effort, be it of the pedantic or obstinate type. 
  
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 John McWilliams 
  
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