What can you do with a DSLR that you cant do with a fully manual point and shoot? Not sure what is better.
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1) Change lenses. A “point & shoot” (p&s) is severely handicapped by its relatively slow, permanently attached lens. With a DSLR if you want to shoot in low light without a flash and without using an excessively high ISO you just mount a 50mm f1.4 lens.
Suppose you want to shoot in an average home interior at night. With a 50mm f1.4 lens using ISO 400 you might get a shutter speed pf 1/60 sec. Try using a p&s with, perhaps, a lens of f3.5 and your shutter speed drops to 1/10 sec. Even an advanced p&s like the Lumix DMC-LX3 with is f2 lens will cause your shutter speed to drop to 1/30 sec. – and that’s using the LX3 at the wide angle setting. Zoom out and your f-stop drops to f2.8 and your shutter speed drops to 1/15 sec. At f2.8 your ISO would have to be at 1600 to achieve the same shutter speed as f1.4 does at ISO 400.
2) Sensor size. A p&s, regardless of how much manual control you have, is still burdened with a tiny sensor. Manufacturers have exacerbated the problem by cramming more and more pixels into these tiny sensors.
A typical p&s sensor measures 6.16mm x 4.26mm while an average DSLR sensor measures 23.7mm x 15.7mm. If both sensors have 10mp, which one do you think will give the better picture under all conditions? If you said “The DSLR sensor” go to the head of the class.
Within its limitations you can make some good pictures with a p&s. For the absolute best results with the most flexibility and creative control a DSLR is the only way to go.
A DSLR can be a manual camera and a point and shoot. Manual cameras mean you get to adjust aperture (Depth of field), shutter speed, exposure, and everything else to your desire. You can get a shot closer to what you want.
Also, the ability to change lenses is preferred
A point and shoot adjust everything for you. Usually, the colors are not the way I want them and would more likely want a little bit of under exposure – I can’t do that with a point and shoot.
Basically: DSLR is mainly used as manual camera while Point and Shoot are for average consumer.
EDIT: You have to think about it first wether you need a DSLR or not. Just because a DSLR offers more advance features does not mean you need to buy it (DSLRs are quite expensive compared to point and shoot).
If you know nothing about manual operation of the camera and does not need to use any manual control.. a.k.a. just a camera for the events – just get a point and shoot.
And no, megapixels are not everything.
Go with dSLR. I don’t know of any manual point and shoots that you have as much control as a dSLR. It’s what you need the camera for. If you want to take it places where you just want it in your pocket for convenience get a Point and shoot. If you want really good control and quality over your pictures… definitely go dSLR. I have both and that’s what I do.
There are two major differences.
1) DSLR’s can use interchangeable lenses from fisheye to extreme telephoto
2) The sensors in DSLR’s are usually over 15 times larger than most P&S cameras