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Anonymous
>>48077 Oh my God, you're wrong.
Photojournalists aren't "allowed" to alter what the image depicts, but there's no reason why they can't change the contrast or anything.
Professional photographers shoop the hell out of their photographs. All the time. Consumer professional photographers and fashion photographers will even go in and shoop wrinkles off a face. (I consider that silly, but the point stands.)
And art photographers? Well, look at this: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/making.shtml
Also, try getting Photoshop to, say, turn a photograph shot on a 21mm lens into one that looks like it was shot on a 135mm. I'm not even talking the zoom; I'm talking the way the photograph looks.
The best bet for you would be to pony up another $150 and get a Canon S3IS or a Panasonic FZ-8. Both are about $300 and are excellent cameras, especially for the price. I'd suggest the FZ-8 over the S3IS, but again, they're both excellent.
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