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 Jeremy Nixon  writes: 
  
 > 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. 
  
 I suspect that there is much less technical photography discussed by 
 P&S owners, however. 
  
 > 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'm quite happy for people to take this elitist stance providing 
 they're going to come right out and state it in those terms. Inventing 
 different contexts of photography that depend on equipment just isn't 
 there yet. 
  
 This is why I proposed a different group split in another thread. 
  
 > > Because you think it /is/ a point and shoot camera, or because you 
 > > think it isn't? Before you go on about how this is a corner case, the 
 > > slr-without-interchangeable lens (E10/E20 seems current consensus) are 
 > > in fact corner cases. 
 > 
 > It sounds an awful lot like you want to play "rules lawyer", and I just 
 > don't understand why.  Must every nit be picked?  If those cameras 
 > naturally fall within the SLR discussion, that's where they will fall, 
 > and it won't matter in the least bit what the charters say about it. 
  
 Because I don't want to have to put up with Thad posting the charter 
 in full every time someone mentions one of the aforementioned, in much 
 the same way as he clearly had in mind with crossposting. 
  
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