Halle Berry--named after defunct Cleveland department store Halle Bros.

Oh, so that's her "professional" name.

I don't rent a house. I live in a 1 bedroom apt. Luckily, I have a balcony.

That disclaimer only works on the dv.com forum. Unfortunately, said forum is still down for yet another "upgrade."

I know a professional video engineer who used a paper clip to help grab a tiny wire inside a tape deck, so I guess paper clips are professional tools... Of course if you are a person in an office who uses paper clips to hold documents together, then you would no doubt want "professional" paper clips, and not those little colored plastic coated ones that this engineer used. They are only for amateurs.

At the risk of sounding non-philosophical about this whole discussion, I'll say that what I consider a professional camera is one that has a high resolution B&W viewfinder, has a "real" lens as opposed to the electronic ones, generates SMPTE bars, time code, has two XLR inputs, has all manual controls for video and audio, and allows you to reset time code and turn on the bars with knobs and buttons instead of having to go into the menu. That would mean my DSR500 is a professional camera and my DSR250 is not. But that doesn't mean I can't make nice pictures with the 250 on occasion.

Hey, she could be named after Wal-Mart and still be hot!

:-)