frank theriault wrote: > > You're right, Keith, > > I was being tongue in cheek. It was sort of my take on the Python "Argument Sketch" > (and a bad one at that): > > "Ah, if my time is up, why are you still arguing?" > > "I could be doing it on my own time!" > > or words to that effect... > > I hear what you're saying about pros - once a pro, always a pro, and the cameras >that a > pro uses are pro cameras (but if he/she buys a disposable camera to take Christmas > pictures, I still maintain that wouldn't be a pro camera, it would be a "pro's > camera").
Exactly so! > But, really, I don't care a whit. I (clearly an amateur) use the cameras that I use. > Pros use the cameras that they use. Not being a pro, I don't really care what >defines > them, or their cameras - although it does make for a fun argument sometimes, over a > couple of pints of Guinness. Now, I've done that more than once. A few times in an Irish bar here in Santa Monica, CA, USA, and several times in jolly ol', up and down the countryside in England, Wales and Scotland. Where better to sample pulled Guiness? <bg> keith whaley