Re: Built-in flash in P&S digital and DSLR cameras

"franklin-d-worth" <fdworth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:39:22 +0100, "Bill Again" <sd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"franklin-d-worth" <fdworth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:13:40 +0000, Chris Savage
>>> <spam.goes.here@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 2007-11-13, Bill Again <sd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You remind me with that comment of an article I read recently by
Jane
>>>>> Bown,
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>><quote>
>>>>> I'm not very particular about equipment: I use Olympus OM1s and have
>>>>> about a
>>>>> dozen, all purchased second-hand more than 40 years ago, and while I
>>>>> have
>>>>> [...]
>>>>><unquote>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>How reliable a source can we consider this to be? She was buying a
>>>>camera, second-hand, more than five years before anyone outside
Olympus
>>>>ever
>>>>saw one.
>>>>
>>>>Whatever. I don't understand the 'available light' dogma. I'm with 
>>>>Eugene
>>>>Smith on the matter.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just as reliable as all the other propagandistic "advice" that dSLR
>>> advocates
>>> hand out. I was waiting to see if anyone would notice the blatant
error 
>>> of
>>> their
>>> "proof". :-) Couch-potato photographers always slip up in their facts 
>>> when
>>> all
>>> they have for reference in life is what they read online, in lieu of
any
>>> real-life experience with anything related to the topic.
>>>
>>
>>You are an ignorant and unmannered person. Blatant error of "their
proof".
>>What arrogant nonsense. The quote was not proof of anything, it was a 
>>quote
>>from an article by Jane Bown. This photographer is now 82 years old and 
>>far
>>from being a "couch potato photographer" she has photographed more
>>personalities than you could shake a stick at. She doesn't need to prove
>>anything, certainly not to idiots like you.
>>
>
> I never alluded to, nor directly said that, Jane Brown was the 
> couch-potato
> photographer without any real-life experience. (Read what I said again.)

> Any
> real photographer would have immediately noticed the error (or 
> misquoting?) of
> her statement and would have never used it as a reference for anything.
My
> comments refer to you and -hh alone. And rightly so, since neither of
you
> noticed it. :-)
>
> Your over-reactive defensiveness speaks tomes about you. (i.e. Methinks 
> thou
> dost protest too much.)
>
> *poof*, there just went any credibility of anything you or -hh have ever

> said
> online
>
> That was fun.

Yawn.