Funny to see what the difference is between those cameras. We should make a sticky with pictures from different cameras.

hey thats a right idea getting everyone to post somthing with their camera or different lens. For example everyone can get their hands on a pepsi can with a white backdrop.

It would probably hard to see the difference in image quality on pictures taken by different dslr with different lenses. Well maybe except those really crappy lenses lol. You would probably have to post a 100% crop to compare the quality or something like that lol at least that's what they do in those reviews posted in dpreview.

yeh ur proberbly right there

It'd be hard to get everyone to use consistent lighting, a stable camera position, ISO, aperture, etc. Studio shots aren't really good for much other than ISO and resolution comparisons anyways.

I think the main difference between DSLR's and P&S's is the level of control you get nowadays. Like others have said, at web sizes and with good lighting, the differences between the two are pretty marginal. But the ability to MF, shrink the DoF, use TS lenses, etc allows you to take pictures that would be impossible or really hard to reproduce on a compact.

Compact P&S's are mainly good for snapshots when carrying a DSLR around isn't practical.

VOUCH!!!!!! lol
Well I do agree with you on some of the things you said but most of the time I do take quite a lot pictures in low light condition and ISO performance is very important to me as you see by the pictures I have posted in here few of them were taken in broad day light and with ISO speed lower than 200 and no p&s cameras that I have heard of can take low noise pictures above ISO 400 and most of them produce very noticeable noise already at ISO 300. Of course I bought mine for snapshots when carrying my slr around isn't very practical just as you pointed out .

Yeah, the high ISO preformance sucks.

Should keep an eye on the newly announced Fuji F200 EXR. I've seen samples of it at ISO 800 and ISO 1600 and the results are pretty amazing for a compact nowadays. Granted they're pairing sensors which reduces the 12M resolution to 6M, but unlike other attempts at this, the sensor is designed for the task and does it very well.

When my 6M SD700IS finally kicks the bucket after years of abuse, I'm most likely getting the F200 or maybe the Ricoh CX1 to replace it. Can't say no to sharp optics and near-DSLR noise levels all in a compact body.

That being said, according to http://tinyurl.com/5kn27z, high resolution compensates for noise. Can't go wrong with being able to choose high resolution or lower noise levels with the Fuji.

Very cool

I think who ever wants reasonably small and good camera should keep his eyes on this:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09030201samsungnxsystem.asp

Or then micro 4/3rds

If that samsung system will be with m42 mount im so going to get one

This post was edited by Tomes on Mar 3 2009 11:03am