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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Lanni" data-source="post: 158910" data-attributes="member: 14629">If I were a golfer I'd want to buy the best set of clubs I could afford, but if there's a hook in my swing no set of clubs will cure it. Pardon my irreverence but a camera is just a tool, a modern one at that, loaded with many technological software functions.&nbsp; Time and date stamp is a software function, and somebody commented out the code because the marketing guys said the camera should not have this function because it needed to appeal to a certain &quot;level' of photographer. If we want to get really serious about our &quot;art&quot;, I'll dig out my 1970's vintage Minolta 35mm SLR and manually set my aperture and shutter speed. Would that qualify me for any level of camera?I just retired and wanted a versatile camera with enough capability to last me for a while. I'll be able to fulfill my photographic ambitions, however, my first task is to prepare some documentation for a report. Maybe a Nikon d7000 is too high level for such mundane tasks.Cheers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nathan Lanni, post: 158910, member: 14629"] If I were a golfer I'd want to buy the best set of clubs I could afford, but if there's a hook in my swing no set of clubs will cure it. Pardon my irreverence but a camera is just a tool, a modern one at that, loaded with many technological [U]software[/U] functions. Time and date stamp is a software function, and somebody commented out the code because the marketing guys said the camera should not have this function because it needed to appeal to a certain "level' of photographer. If we want to get really serious about our "art", I'll dig out my 1970's vintage Minolta 35mm SLR and manually set my aperture and shutter speed. Would that qualify me for any level of camera? I just retired and wanted a versatile camera with enough capability to last me for a while. I'll be able to fulfill my photographic ambitions, however, my first task is to prepare some documentation for a report. Maybe a Nikon d7000 is too high level for such mundane tasks. Cheers. [/QUOTE]

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