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Originally Posted by sassan
BTW I think every real professional photographer, should have a point and shot with empty memory card and fully charged battery in all assignments. Who remembers that Olympic event that the skier fall right in front of all photographers, all equipped with long long teles, with none being able to get a single picture of the event, making it an unforgettable shameful event.
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I didn't see that, but yeah .. I know exatly what you mean. I've had it happen to me from time to time. Like the time I was photographing White-browed Babblers at Gluepot and the very shy and difficult to find Striated Grasswren popped out of the spinifex and practically ran over my feet - and here I was holding a massive 500mm lens that doesn't focus closer than 4.5 metres! Ouch! If only I'd has the 100-400 dangling over the other shoulder, or even my old A95 in my pocket!
Off the top of my head, I'd have thought that the S-2 and S-3 were a bit too large to qualify as pocket cameras, but I bought an S-2 for my father during the run-out, so I'll ask to borrw that and see what I think. (I was very pushed for time the day it arrived and didn't even get to take it out of the box before I gave it to him.)