Ken Rockwell makes a lot of sense about the photographer being more important than the tool, but unfortunately you have to already know something about photography before you can tell where he is posting tongue-in-cheek.

His article makes just as much sense if you substitute $5.00 disposable camera vs. $150 point-and-shoot, for the point-and-shoot vs. $5,000.00 camera he describes.

I don't like Mr. Rockwell's articles because he is dishonest. The image he asks us to compare at the top of the referenced page is a web-friendly reduction of two vastly different original images.

Now if he started with this image. . .

That said, I like the canon P&S, but recently bought a Sony T10 because of the more compact size and excellent screen. It replaced a Canon PowerShot S400 which was also an excellent device.