OK, to summarise.
Dewman is getting irritated by any implication that he might be a point and shooter. However, those implications are being directly at an entirely different poster in this thread, who states his needs in terms that could be the perfect definition of a point and shooter. ( No names, no pack drill...). So calm down Dewman we are not insulting you. But it is a pity that you think point and shooters lack creativity. Many do, but some P&Sers take excellent examples of creative art.
One thing that should be taken into consideration is that high level point and shoot cameras can give SUPERB results by merely using the scene option menu, which gives a visual menu of the most common user needs, just select the appropriate option, and whee, you get a nice jpeg. I had an excellent 10x zoom Lumix that did this, but cost almost as much as an entry level DSLR. Sadly, I then went on to buy an entry level DSLR, and LBA has racked the cost up considerably. My wallet is nostalgic for the Lumix...
Secondly, someone suggested that Dewman's lens collection of lenses had no standouts - but I have the same 50 f1.4 as Dewman, and I think it is a splendid lens.
Thirdly, RAW or jpeg, it doesn't matter, some shots will need PP. And the good thing about RAW is that it won't be necessary to work on images that have already been PP-ed in camera and saved with a process that degrades image quality. Dewman states that he is doing PP, it's just a pity that he is PPing input of a lower quality level. (When I was using film, most of my PP consisted of throwing away the print slide or negative, a very expensive method.)
I strongly recommend using RAW, together with a much simpler RAW processing program. Faststone Image Viewer is my favourite, because it's free, but I really liked the results from Photo Ninja - but legal software is impossible to get here in China...
This thread is giving very good advice to several different posters, but it's not easy to decipher who is saying what to who/whom/whooo (Sez Bagga owlishly)
I had to switch to editing this on my PC, because editing using a tablet is a nightmare on this forum...
Last edited by Bagga_Txips; 08-05-2014 at 07:07 AM.