On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:36:40 +0200, you wrote: >OK, Jostein, > >You and the others who posted on this subject have convinced me. It makes >little sense to me, but I can accept that many snapshooters are now buying a >DLSR. Hopefully, while most of them will store those cameras in adrawwer >after a while, some will grow as amateur photographers, and that's a good >thing. > >Dario > Our daughter is a good example of a snapshooter. A few years ago when she was in her early twenties I gave her a very nice ME Super set with a couple of primes, a zoom, and a flash. She was thrilled, and using this nice set she caught the snapshooting bug.
So what did she buy for an upgrade from the ME Super? Canon Rebel. Kit lens short zoom. 70-300 that I bought her for a present. Now, a couple of years later, she has added the Digital Rebel as her primary camera, which came with an 18-55 kit lens. Most likely she has reached her equipment saturation point, and probably won't ever upgrade again. Snapshooter behavior: On her recent trip to Hawaii, she took one 512mb card. As it filled up, she made more space by editing the bad ones, then started lowering the resolution to get more on the same card. It never occurred to here to go spend the bucks for another CF card, or an image tank, or the other options. She thought it was perfectly okay to lower the resolution to get more pics on her one card. BTW, the Digital Rebel is an odd gunmetal color, which gets more ugly the more I look at it. But for all its plastic body, it still feels fairly sturdy, and is much larger than one would expect, especially compared to the *istD. -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com
