I think that in order to get good shots that you and your friends like, you just need to experiment more and buy a good fix. I wanted to buy a DSLR, but for an amateur like me, it's a problem to carry around because of the weight. And here you can get shots no worse and even better than on an amateur DSLR with their whale zoom in the kit, so why should I carry a big camera on vacation when I have a compact one with good optics.
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