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> In a message dated 3/2/2001 5:23:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> Bottom line: nobody can stop anyone using the word. But deliberately
> using a perjorative and offensive term, despite polite requests from other
> group members, i
Yes, you did. That is a Super Roboamera. And, don't you forget it.
--Tom
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From: "Mark Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> p.s., I'm hoping to buy an MZ-S robocamera rather than switch
> systems to N***n. Did I offend anyone by calling the MZ-S a
> robocamera?
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Mark Erickson writes:
> p.s., I'm hoping to buy an MZ-S robocamera rather than switch
> systems to N***n. Did I offend anyone by calling the MZ-S a
> robocamera?
I've almost started calling my Z-1p the "plastic fantastic".
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann, B.E.
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In a message dated 3/2/2001 5:23:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Bottom line: nobody can stop anyone using the word. But deliberately
using a perjorative and offensive term, despite polite requests from other
group members, is just ill-mannered.
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Which "othe
John Francis wrote:
>Bottom line: nobody can stop anyone using the word. But deliberately
using a perjorative and offensive >term, despite polite requests from other
group members, is just ill-mannered.
John,
That's a pretty kind assessment. To get bent out shape about the existence
of the E
But in the meantime it is descriptive, and fun
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Whether we like it or not, the name "robo-camera", ("muscle-bound"; "cameras
> on steriods") is now part of the lexicon of 35mm SLR shooters.
> When nationally syndicated and staff writers use the words and phrases above
> to describe such cameras, it is too late to t
The word grew out of the "my "pro" bodies have more auntomation than your
bodies" war (gone mad) between Canon and Nikon.
It is also a term that decribes those who use the Nikon and Canon heavy duty
"pro" cameras. Not the PJ's of course, but the tens of thousands of people
who blindly purchse t
John Francis wrote re. "robocameras":
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> Do you think we could make an effort to drop this silly description?
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> It's trite, it's derisory, and it's neither clever nor amusing.
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I second the motion. Since the term applies to cameras with significant
automation capability, it applies just as
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