Most photographers I have known personally didn't use professional
cameras. In fact it was the dilettantes, Amateurs gifted or
not who had the most expensive 'professional' equipment.
At 02:41 AM 7/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I don't know about other people, but the word
>professional actually puts me off cameras. No way am I
>a professional. I would probably describe myself as a
>semi-serious hobbyist who is becoming more serious by
>the minute.
>
>When I hear the word professional attached to a camera
>that maybe I was going to buy, It makes me think "S---
>Jody, are you crazy? What are you doing?". It scares
>me to think that I am buying a "professional" camera.
>Shouldn't they just be for people who actually make a
>living from photography?
>
>For eample: When I first saw the LX, I knew I had to
>have one. Then I heard that dirty word "professional"
>attached to it. My dad even said it sounded like a
>"professional" camera, purely from the verbal
>desription I gave him. So then I started panicking,
>thinking I'm not ready for a "professional" camera. It
>took me a long time to get over that. Now I have an LX
>on the way (sorry to gloat again) and I have realised
>that "professional" is just a word, and I shouldn't
>let that one word put me off a camera I really want.
>
>Jody.
>
>
>
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