From: jeremy@exit109.com 
  
 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. 
  
 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. 
  
 > 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. 
  
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