Picture posting is enabled for all :)
isn't it just that you can't be a proper photograper, and take proper photographs, unless you have an SLR camera (at the very least), like in the days of film?
3. Yes, it would be a help, but to be really critical in eg Portrait Photograhy, it was great to have the facility to see the result (the blurring) through the lens.
unfortunately Tim they're not, it seems. They're FD lenses for my trusty Canon A1, and T70 (with the dead battery)