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Originally Posted by Doug Pardee
Manual controls on a digicam are generally pretty useless.
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I beg to differ. I think they're just
mostly useless.
But in certain specific situations can be of great importance. Like if you're trying to precisely control slow shutter speeds to get a specific amount of motion blur. Having a choice between portrait/sports mode is not gonna help you out, here. And exposure compensation only goes so far when you're night shooting.
Once you're used to having full manual and thinking about exposure that way, it's just nice to have the control, even on a point and shoot. It's not always about depth of field. And the iso range is steadily improving in the smaller cameras.
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In any event, be aware that a digicam is simply not a substitute for your DSLR.
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I don't know. Sometimes (if you're within the P&S limits), it really is; and in some rare cases (e.g., street shooting) it can be an improvement. These days, P&S cameras can actually give far better quality than some folks assume. Within certain limited conditions,
a P&S camera can rival medium format digital. The key is those limitations. But I've done a fair number of shots with my G9 that I'm happy to put next to my SLR shots.A P&S camera doesn't suddenly rob you of your sense of composition, or your ability to post-process, and the resolution of the data is now
exceeding what we had with dSLRs just five years ago. My G9 at 12MP outresolved my 8MP XT.