Seems to me I mentioned more than just shutter lag as a benefit... like the better glass and focusing. The Orangutan crab was much sharper than anything I'd been able to get with my old Fuji F810, even with double stacked macro lenses. The sexy shrimp I gave a direct comparison - the DSLR shot was much more crisp. And you conveniently didn't mention the silverside shots where I compared the one I *finally* got with my Fuji vs. the ease (and better quality) shot I got with the DSLR 2 days later.
But maybe to your eye, there's no difference. Some people just don't have a critical photographer's eye and are happier with lesser quality images.
Ok… so we are in an agreement that shutter lag is NOT an issue in this particular application. So a P&S could have easily taken these shots without any problems.
Onward to the next claim of benefits…image quality, first I did not conveniently overlook the last pictures because I thought they were shot by the same camera, I should have read the print, my fault.
Now here is where it gets very interesting.
You are associating the poor the image quality of the P&S camera image on the OLD camera itself.
Are you saying that your OLD Fuji has the same image quality as the 12 megapixel, larger sensor P&S of today?
Plus the part in your statement where you seem to think that the ADD-ON macro lenses STACKED will IMPROVE the image?
When in fact the opposite is true…the ADD-ON lenses will DEGRADE the image in terms of chromatic aberration and loss of contrast. Move your mouse around the problems listed under the engle and compare those two defects with your STACKED Fuji pictures.
Understanding Camera Lenses
Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can you say chromatic aberration or purple fringing on your “sexy” shrimps body and tail or the loss of contrast (washed out colors) throughout the entire image! The silverside shots both looked bad.
Fuji, Canon and the rest of the gang had painstakingly design their native lens to minimize these issues…so what do you when you start stacking lenses that were NOT design for their lenses, that’s right DEGRADE the image!
And I have a lynch mob and their lackeys that to this day will not believe that the image is degraded at all! Were these the non-serious, no critical eye “photographers” you were referring too?
Then to prove that a native P&S camera is capable of taking high quality images I refer you to this website, which are NOT my images, but a fine examples of U/W images from a P&S without the STACKED lenses.
Canon Powershot A620 - a photoset on Flickr
Anilao Feb 2007 - a photoset on Flickr
The colors really pop and the over all image very sharp and these are from a 7 megapixel A620 Canon P&S camera! Your Fuji I believe is 9 mp!