Respectfully John, I'm not trying to convince the rest of the world to do
things my way. The original poster asked for opinions and that's what he's
getting. It's up to him to decide which way he wants to go.
IMO, if one is going to invest in an automatic camera, and one's not sure if
the user will be interested in learning photography or not, then a P&S is
the way to go. If the user turns out to be not that interested in
photography and more interested in snapshots, then they've got the camera
they want anyway.
OTOH, if they find they do want more control over the camera, then keep the
P&S for snapshots and get something else.
The one thing that probably won't work well is to buy an auto-SLR for
someone that *mostly* wants snapshots. It will be too big of a brick to
carry for what they want to do, in most cases.
Tom C.
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From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: RE: first camera
>
> aimcompute:
> >
> > I stand by what I said.
> >
> > Tom C.
>
>
> Well, of course you do. That's the problem with all these highly
> contentious threads - nobody is prepared to be convinced that their
> viewpoint is anything but the one true way of looking at things.
>
> I've been around long enough to recognize that the world isn't that
> simple. I've quite a bit of experience with close family members
> who do *not* respond to the kind of approach that obviously works
> for people you know. Throwing people in at the deep end is not
> the only way to teach people to swim (and has some rather nasty
> consequences for those who do best with a little more assistance).
>
> I'm not suggesting that you have to do things my way - All I ask in
> return is that you stop trying to convince the rest of the world that
> your way is the single best way, and would work well for everybody.
>
>
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