Dude, you're just making yourself look like an ass. You're just wrong. You're wrong on so many counts that I can't even begin to correct all of them.

You're wrong on what you think constitutes an aperture. You're wrong on what you think the specs of the current point and shoot market are. You're wrong on your ideas of image quality. You don't even know what wide open means, as opposed to stopped down - that's how little of a clue you have about the cameras you're arguing about.

Just another fool who is deluded enough to think he should argue a point. Another poster child for the saying, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."