> The 35 mm camera and its digital imitation is the phallic symbol! If you have it, flaunt it. If you ain't got it - pretend you don't care. Chris, seriously, that's an odd comment to make. The important surely thing is to choose the right tool for the job: and for much sport / wildlife work that means a big tool. If you only have a small tool, stick to loitering around shopping centres taking sneaky candids of unsuspecting victims ;o) If you treat your cameras as tools, then sure, for street candids a compact is as good as anything. For Dave Small's type of work you need a fast response though - not a cheapo that misses the decisive moment while it thinks about whether to focus on the sky or the end of the lens cap. Too though, the guys with the big tools getting "goal mouth action" as fast to switch to 20mm lenses when the players pass them "down the tunnel". Bob "When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail." "If you only have a small tool ..."
