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I've watched every edition. Essentially they've taken a selection of very good professional photographers and thrown an unfamiliar camera at them. I think the point the producer's tried to make is that anyone can take a decent picture, no matter what the equipment used, but the reality is that these people are so experienced in composition and subject, they'd be hard pressed not to get at least a half-decent shot - every time.
Last night, for example, the guy who was using the Canon S70 complained about the viewfinder being only 80% of the true view and that it was almost impossible to frame a shot, but seconds later he's using the LCD to do just that. There were also instances of comments like "Oh, the memory cards's full" and "The battery needs recharging". I'll assume that these people would normally take plenty of film out with them and batteries for a flash perhaps, so taking a spare battery and card shouldn't really be a problem. Perhaps some more progressive photographers might have been picked or even a working photographer from a newspaper who already had embraced digital capture. Then we might have seen a more balanced picture.
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