> Many of them continue producing mediocre images but some of them have quite > good results. Pini I'm not sure I understand your point? They have expensive kit and take good photos? Well, their motivation to take good photos comes from the love of thier toys maybe for sure. And maybe with a cheap camera they would not feel empowered to take any photos. But how is this inconsitent with the idea that having learned to take good shots with thier top of the range DSLRs, they could buy a compact and discover the shots were all but as good? Bob PS: nice shot in the gallery btw