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  Msg # 359 of 32000 on ZZNE4431, Saturday 5-12-23, 2:28  
  From: WOODCHUCK BILL  
  To: JEREMY NIXON  
  Subj: Re: 4th RFD: rec.photo.digital reorganiz  
 From: bwr607@hotmail.com 
  
 Jeremy Nixon  wrote in 
 news:10k7um34lunb630@corp.supernews.com: 
  
 >> But you wanted to include rangefinders becasue they were high end. You 
 >> wanted to exclude SLRs without completely interchangeable lenses 
 >> because they're not flexible enough, except that things which /have/ 
 >> extra lenses don't count because they're 'low end' 
 > 
 > It's not about "ends".  "Ends" have absolutely nothing to do with it. 
 > 
 > It's about how the cameras are used and, more to the point, how they are 
 > discussed.  A camera that is technically an SLR but has a fixed lens is 
 > in the same category as the "ZLR" cameras with regard to how they are 
 > used and discussed.  It just plain, flat-out makes no sense to include 
 > them in the "SLR" group.  Almost nothing in that group will be of value 
 > to the owners of those cameras. 
  
 I fully agree with all of the above..as if I said it myself. 
  
 -- 
 Bill 
  
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