"Beck" wrote in message
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To me, a point and shoot camera has always been of the small pocketable
type that have barely any manual controls and maybe a few set scenes.

SLR would be a camera type (apart from being single lens reflex) that has
full manual controls aswell as auto.

I am curious as to what the middle cameras would be? You know like for
example the Fuji S5500 that has a full range of manual controls but is not
an SLR. Would that still be classed as a point and shoot camera?

There is no real reason I need to know this, its just merely out of
curiousity because in my experience the media tend to talk about either
point and shoot or slr cameras.


I must say that I consider the 'Point & Shoot' variety to be much more
versatile. The one I have has a tilting screen and can be used like an SLR
and a TLR, very useful when close to the ground or taking candid group
pictures, I use a black cloth in bright light (the one I used to use with my
5x4) They are also very quiet little machines.

But see;
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mul...id=7-6468-7844
very interesting.

Jem

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