Woa! Hold it man! It's the other way around: most good P&S would let you shoot pics as good as any SLR. And the last crop of midrange SLRs (Maxxum 7, F100, MZ-S) are fantastic cameras in every respect.
Mishka > It's not only the small film format. It's also that > the quality of 35mm SLRs (and that includes other > brands too) has degraded during the past years to the > point that the results are similar to the compact > P&S cameras.