its not only about the megapixels thuogh, as you probably already know.
heck, theres the lumia phone! with 40MP! thats 10x what my first digital compact had!
indeed my camera is pretty good, but still dslrs are better overall. i will say this though, this one does a pretty good job of closing that distance, and it can be very user friendly. there s no way i could teach my gf to snap a shot properly with a dslr, but this one is just point and shoot if i want it to.
and then when i want, i can fiddle with a lot of settings and play around with RAW too.
saving up for a D7100 though if i get a better job in the near future that is ...