Well I am also a hobbyist. I actually work as an design engineer for an aerospace firm. I use bryce as a passionate artsy but I can def undertand research-geeky. I have been drawing, painting and photographing for most of my life. I mention this to give a bit of insight into how I think. Maybe others will agree or see some aspects in themselves. When I shoot a photo of a model, I usually do not spend spend great amounts of time working the settings - this would kill any sense of immediacy/spontanaity. Other times I do take advantage of all the manual control power of my camera. What I want to say is that 90% of the time i work visiually and the other 10% I work technically. I do appreciate the abilty to do both! My camera must have that capabilty to do both. I wouldn't have bought it otherwise. As I have stated before, this is also how I treat bryce, as a virtual photographer. And as such, it must have the same capabilies to suit my work style (visual mostly, but occasionally technical.) This is why i am so UI sensitive.

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