ben your a fucking idiot.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomwaterfallphotos/
those are toms pictures, and you fucking suck compared to them. actually you suck compared to all the retards with shitty photography threads on this site, and thats really saying something, so i dont know where your coming from when you talk to tom like you are superior to him.
you may be a "beginner" but your also a retard.
Ben Grantham said:
tbh I'm just looking for good quality pictures and fast shutter speed, and to be fair you can't really get a crap quality SLR camera with fast shutter-speed can you?
crap quality slr? a d40 is the cheapest slr you can buy, and it isnt crap quality.. i dont know exactly what you meant by that. and you went even farther and got a d80 which is completely and totally unnessecary. and what is this "fast-shutter speed" you speak of? do you mean shutter lag? because a p&s has shutter lag, but there are also p&s's out there that perform virtually identical to an slr, except the lens changing. you are never gonna switch out the lens so i dont know why you need one. so no, you do not need an slr when first starting out, and yes, your whole argument is invalid.