Jeremy Nixon  wrote: 
 > Bruce Murphy   wrote: 
  
 >> For the third time. What _specific_ topics, apart from the two obvious 
 >> ones (lens choice and sensor cleaning) are relevant to an 
 >> SLR-with-interchangeable-lens and not relevant to a 
 >> SLR-without-interchangeable-lens ? 
 >> 
 >> Stop ranting, stop telling me how little I know about photography, 
 >> stop inventing a populace that thinks about SLR the same way you do, 
 >> and answer the pertinent question. 
  
 > I'm not answering the question because it's not applicable.  You're asking 
 > for specific technical topics, and that's not what I'm talking about. 
  
 > You can have the *same* technical topic, and have to discuss it or answer 
 > questions about it differently depending on the type of camera in use, 
 > and the type of photographer you're talking to.  The cameras are used 
 > very differently; the thought process is different and the way you go 
 > about it is different. 
  
 This seems to me to be an astonishing claim.  I do not believe that the 
 process of taking a photograph with an SLR-with-interchangeable-lens 
 and an SLR-without-interchangeable-lens is different, except for the 
 obvious lack of lens choice. 
  
 > The *only* thing you need to do to demonstrate this for yourself is go 
 > and read rec.photo.digital for a while.  It will become self-evident 
 > if you look for it -- that many of the questions can be answered both 
 > correctly and totally differently in the context of different types of 
 > cameras being used, and that one context's answer will be of no use at 
 > all within another context. 
  
 I have been reading said group for a fairly long time, and I do not 
 believe that this is the case.  The important distinction is between 
 cameras that do everything automagically and those with full creative 
 control. 
  
 Andrew. 
  
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