On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:59:50 -0500, "Charles"
wrote:

The gal or guy pushing the shutter button determines if a camera is amateur
or professional.

No doubt that almost all professionals use DSLRs as their main bodies,

And you base your findings on what? You interviewed every last one of them? Or
was it from reading posts from pretend-photographer idiots in newsgroups that
keep spewing misinformation and lies to try to support their own ignorance-based
beliefs?

You could never be so wrong.

but
some use higher-end compacts (point and shoots) as backups. Some use those
super-zooms.

"Prosumer" is a messy tag that will never be agreed upon as to what the hell
it exactly means. A "bridge camera" is another fuzzy term.

Just define your goals and do your homework and forget about the stupid
labels.