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Subject: [OM] Re: E-330 gets Editors' Choice from PC Mag!
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:27:18 -0800
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I was just being ironic about pointless 'must have' features. 
Irony? Well, I'm just a 'Murkin, and thus clueless, but I suspect it's 
hard for any phrase following the words "Daft stuff - I'm surprised" to 
qualify as irony. To be effective for me, irony can't have a big arrow 
pointing to it.
> There's  
> nothing to stop them building in a phone so you can discuss the shot  
> with the client as you shoot; an MP3 player so you can have music  
> when the client hangs up; games like Tetris on the LCD (use the  
> toggle button) for the wait when the client decides to come down and  
> show you himself; lots of extra front panel lights and noises to keep  
> the model interested/alert between shots; an SMS facility so that you  
> can tell your computer which shot that was; an internet connection  
> mode so that you can download a stock shot and pretend that you took  
> it; a 'creative loss of control' mode that simulates an artistic  
> temper tantrum....
> Of course, consumer models can be sillier than that - those are just  
> the serious professional options.
>   
Very amusing, whatever it was, thanks for the ride.

Moose

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