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BTW, with all my coming and going over the last month, Michael has put the D200 IR 'somewhere safe' so even I don't know where it is right now!!!
You have often mentioned you wouldn't dare produce your compact camera in a commercial situation, although you feel the compact would take just as good a photograph as your 'proper' camera...
When I am taking 'serious' photographs I use my D200 usually in 'Aperture priority' mode, if I am just taking family snaps, or recording the progress of my car build, I use either my iPhone or the D3100 in fully auto mode, I just want the result, don't care how I get there.
I almost always use a tripod for serious photographs, for snapshots I rely on the VR or something solid to lean the camera on.
The annoying thing is... many of my 'snapshots' are just as good as my 'serious' photographs, some perhaps better...
One of the factors is the compacts will probably have greater limitations than proper cameras, one that leaps to mind is the ridiculous depth of focus, with almost everything pin sharp, NOT what I like. Give me an FX f1.4 wide open please!
An item on the news this evening about Turner and Constable, apparently Constable went out with sketch pad and pencil and sketched various 'components' of a scene, went home to his studio and laid out the sketches to form an entire picture, a kind of early photoshop?
He seems to do UK with a pencil and sketchpad... I don't think it's so much the kit as the man (or woman?) using it.
I would still prefer even a D1 over my iPhone though, from the point of view of getting the job done in style.
When it comes to tools I much prefer to use good quality professional gear, but if I were stuck anything that will do the job would be pressed into service.
Although I'm not sure I could bring myself to use a PC... LOL There ARE limits!
My two cents/
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Robert.