Quote Originally Posted by Princess12
Just going from personal experience. I bought my D40 really before I was ready for one. I wish I had taken the time to learn on my point and shoot prior to investing in it. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it! Great camera and I use it constantly, but I do feel as though I am sort of playing "catch up" with it at times. By all means, if he would like to dive into the DSLR world, I encourage him to do so... I was just speaking from personal opinion/experience which I should have stated.

see to me, i play around with both all day long at work and in all honesty i dont feel like you can get what you want out of a point and shoot. especially if you are trying to do more specific things with a camera. the manual options on most point and shoot camera's are very lack luster in my opinion. you really cant get a feel for adjusting and what have you on them unless you go up to either a prosumer or dslr. even the prosumers can only give you so much.