P3D Point and Shoot

[Bob_Maxey@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>I understand and can appreciate your reasoning behind using the term,
but I think it's a tad confusing since, according to the three
explanations I have read so far, every camera can perceivably be a P&S.

Regardless of the explanations you have read, this is not true. I started
selling cameras in 1973...long before the term Point and Shoot was coined.
The term was used to describe a camera that was descriptive of the term
Point and Shoot. These cameras were designed to be as simple as possible.
Remember, the term is a new one to some extent. The 110 and 126 cameras
were not described as point and shoot - even though they could be used that
way.

And the idea that every camera can be described as a point and shoot camera
is wrong. Are you telling me a Circkit Camera, an 11 X 14 View Camera, a
Mitchell 35mm Movie Camera and a Colorama Camera are Point and Shoot
Cameras? Hardly. Point and shoot is just that. You point it and press the
button. BTW: I use my Leica CL as a Point and Shoot Camera, and hardly ever
use the Rangefinder. I rely upon the focusing Scale to indicate focusing.
If I were to use my Realist in that way, the slides would be even worse
than they are when I point, estimate exposure, focus and compose, select
the required shutter speed and do everything as it should be done (But not
now, mine has a broken lens).

RM



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