What's your setup

[ssrprelude]

Um, yup. You can. Many of the newer higher end point and shoots will beat older DSLRs in DR, IQ, and CA. Maybe not the D700, but I can accept that a D200 could be beat on technical merits. Granted, you aren't going to have the artistic flexibility with a p&s that you get with a high end DSLR.

I don't consider cameras like the Sony N5 or Nikon 1 point and shoots. They both have interchangable lenses and the same sensors as a dslr. They are handy to have and take great pictures but if it doesn't fit in your pocket its not a p&s to me.

[Darbex]

+1

[myjohnson]

+2

[tbui1178]

+3

[soymilk]

All depends light, how much of it, and viewing format.

I remember a few years ago they thru up a canon point and shoot against a canon Dslr and a medium format camera. It was taken outside, a picture of a forrest. It was then printed on a 8x10 and passed around to newbies and pros. Majority of people couldn't tell the difference between a 300 dollar point and shoot vs a 20k+ digital back.

Some of the high end point and shoots are pretty nice nowadays. I need to buy one but I'm feeling cheap

[myjohnson]

Yeah, point and shoots are really stepping it up.

I still like to see a pocket size camera perform like a bigger one.

I have two P&S cameras. DSLR just can't beat the small size. Very easy to travel with the P&S.

[soymilk]

Prob hardest thing for p and s camera is low light or night pictures. This is where Dslr camera excel but in the past few years has been pretty interesting for p and s.

Sony came out with a backlit CMOS sensor it looks like it helps a lot for dark shots. Then there's twilight mode. Basically the camera takes 3-5 shots really fast and kinda mixes them all together to get a clean high ISO shot. Pretty cool.

[soymilk]

I've had my eye on a Sony hxv9 but that Canon s100 looks pretty awesome too. Sony has better video, canon has better stills.... Decisions decisions.

Sometimes you don't want to take the whole camera kit, and you don't wanna look like a tool using your iPad.

[madugo]

X100?

[soymilk]

Lol, I wanted one sooooo bad last year. I was gonna get it 2-3 times. But decided to wait on the nex 7. Might wait a few months and see if the price drops on the nex a little more.

I love the form factor of the x100 but paying that much for just one fixed lens is kinda crazy to me. Not to mention the raw thing was weird. You have to press raw for the next picture to be raw, and then do it again. It only applies to the next picture.

Wish the lenses on the nex didn't stick out so much.

[TheFantasticG]

I don't consider cameras like the Sony N5 or Nikon 1 point and shoots. They both have interchangable lenses and the same sensors as a dslr. They are handy to have and take great pictures but if it doesn't fit in your pocket its not a p&s to me.

I was actually referring to cameras like the Nikon P7100 and Canon S95, not the interchange lens cameras such as 4/3rds, Micro 4/3rds, and Other mirrorless cameras that use APS-C/DX cameras. Even though the Fuji X100 does qualify as a P&S by those standards. :)

[sunkenmetal]

They probably don't make point and shoots that preform like DSLRs because they think no one will pay for them.

[soymilk]

Theirs kinda a niche market but they do make über p&s cameras. They do relatively well considering they cost as much as a Dslr setup.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/838600-REG/Canon_G1X_PowerShot_G1_X_Digital.html

800 bucks

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/817840-REG/Fujifilm_16190089_X10_Digital_Camera_Black.html

600 bucks

Most photogs get something like a canon g12 as an advance point and shoot.

[TheFantasticG]

Come October I'll be picking up the Canon EOS-M ... And I know someone who will be enjoying a well taken care of new to them Canon 60D.

Oh, and the Nikon 1 uses a smaller than DX CMOS sensor... So it's not the same one they use in their DSLRs but the quality is still very very nice.

[soymilk]

What's the appeal Of the eos-m over any other evl system?