&#62; I think lots of people just like carrying around a big black camera with their long kit zoom lens on it.<p>You have no idea :) I got my first DSLR back in September of last year, and I've taken it with me to about a dozen holiday dinner meetups and vacation trips to touristy places like the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas since. If I try to use my iPhone or a P&#38;S (as a backup camera), a lot of people end up walking through my picture or can be really rude about giving me a little space to move around and take pictures.<p>But....when you've got a comparatively huge DSLR (well, my D5000 isn't even huge, but it looks intimidating enough with even the 18-55mm kit lens, let alone my even-bigger-with-hoods 55-200 or 12-24), people around you tend to give you a little space and courtesy to let you take your pictures to your heart's content. I also don't get as many people asking me to take pictures for them, cause they assume big camera must equal pro photographer that should be left alone. Not that I mind doing that for others, but sometimes it's inconvenient.<p>So I did find it a bit odd the article went out of the way to mention that DSLR's scream "look at me", because that's practically a selling point to a lot of people. :P