Originally Posted by
Draconius
Shudup...you know better than that that even a DSLR with the convenience of an 18-200 is better than a P&S. It is purely for convenience over anything else. If you are traipsing around the outdoors and you have to switch lenses you know dirt and particles get in on the sensor. Without an auto sensor cleaning you can do some serious damage. No matter how hard you try to not get shit in the body, it will inevitably get in there.
Not quite Brain...
an 18-200 is going to be a slow lens especially at full zoom, probably in the range of 4.0-8.6 is my guess (not looking it up) so the P+S would actuallyt have a distinct advantage over this setup in speed and most likely in sharpness as well.
Don't discredit the P+S I have seen some truly amazing work from them, hell I shot on one for my first year of magazine work and still got published on the regular.