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Subject: RE: [Leica] Thanks!! OT Nikon F5
From: Michael Scarpitti <mikescarpitti@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 17:17:37 -0700 (PDT)

- --- Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
wrote:
> > What I argued in my previous post
> > still stands. Find a group with a lower IQ (or
> lower
> > self-esteem) than professional photographers and
> I'll
> > eat my hat. I've worked with them. I know.
> 
> A person as obviously bright as yourself should know
> that the average
> characteristics of any sufficiently large group will
> tend to reflect the
> average of the population the sample is drawn from. 
> Lower IQ?  Lower
> self-esteem?  I take it you have not conversed much
> with Ted, Harrison,
> Donal, Tina, Mark R. et al.  Statements like that
> are contemptible bigotry,
> that illustrate nothing but your own lack of
> intellectual rigour.  And I
> don't care if you use an SL2 or a Rebel - that kind
> of vitriol is both
> uncalled for and completely unsupportable.
> 

Let's take two groups of photographers who have "pro
equipment":

1.) Amateurs (doctors, lawyers, dentists, business
owners)
2.) Pros

Wanna think about that again?

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