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I changed the picture from a roll of film to a camera since nearly all non-pro photography and much pro photography is digital. As it happens, the most iconic camera image I could find is not a digital camera, but compact digital cameras aren't very iconic and digital SLRs tend to be all black. --Tysto 00:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Hm, I dunno. The film icon served to better distinguish this (amateur) designation from professional photography, which does show an SLR-like camera icon:

The old icon was from the tango project too, so they had a consistent visual style even though they were distinct. It would be nice if we could find a similarly styled consumer-level digital camera icon. Perhaps one could be made from Image:Camera-video.svg?

-Fadookie ^Talk 03:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I decided to try my hand at this. I'm no artist, but perhaps something along these lines would work?

I've changed the picture to this in order to see how it looks in the context of a userbox. (It's supposed to resemble an old Sony Mavica.) Please don't mind my being bold, feel free to revert it if you don't like it.

-Fadookie ^Talk 03:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The new icon is nice-looking but doesn't really look like a camera. And a roll of film does not suggest "amateur" at all. How about something like the Canon Powershot [1]? Silver, but a more traditional lens and viewer location. --Tysto 04:43, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's supposed to resemble a Mavica. I think I found the perfect Icon though (It's used for photography stubs):

There, everybody happy? -Fadookie ^Talk 07:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)