Ordinary Digital Camera VS Professional Photographer's SLR

well, as what was said before, producing beautiful pictures does not depend on the camera but the photographer. i'm not saying that you don't produce beautiful photos and i have experienced the limitations of using an ordinary point and shoot camera and sometimes it really is frustrating that you sometimes can't produce the images that you want to produce because of those limitations. maybe you should use your camera's manual setting to be able to adjust, if not the depth of field, but the aperture and shutter speed at the least. what camera are you using, by the way? i'm currently using my sister's old camera and i think i should be more disappointed than you because it only has 3.2 mp.:) it's an old canon model but i like it because it has a manual setting. technical-wise it's frustrating to use because of the limitations to tweak it in you're desired setting but it's the only camera i have and i should make the most out of it (and as you have said, DSLRs are REALLY expensive). what i can advise you to do is enjoy producing pictures with your camera while you still don't have a dslr. a good camera doesn't mean good pictures all the time. even photographers with dslr get bad pictures sometimes.:) what i can advise you to do is to enjoy producing photos with whatever camera you have. if you are able to produce good photos with ordinary point and shoot cameras, sans the photoshopping of course:), then you will be able to produce good photos even when not using a dslr camera.

Like LiAXaZu wrote, let's just take the time to learn and perfect our skills with taking photos so that by the time we meet our dreamed DSLR we'll be more deserving to have one. Beside, even if we have one, its the timing and discriminating deduction of event which will make or break a true timeless photo. Enjoy posting here Edzllamas.)

I have my "higher tech" camera and I have a few point and shoot cameras that I take on my smaller outings, I save the higher quality camera for special occassions and sometimes photowalking.

I think if you can work it out financially it's good to have at least one of each. I love my DSLR camera and sometimes hate the point and shoot because I enjoy using the bulker camera better for the shots I can get from it.