I’ll bookmark that for future reference. Usually when I get ready to buy a camera (the Canon P&S is my fifth) I spend enough hours researching that if I were paid for the hours, the time would be worth more than the camera (there are a lot of camera out there!). Unfortunately the Canon P&S was kind of a last minute, gotta-get-it-now type of purchase, and I regret having gotten it.
You’re right. I had no idea how much noise the Lumix had until I started comparing it with my Canon DSLR, particularly in low light. On the other hand, I use the P&S for “snapshots” and the DSLR for “photographs,” if you know what I mean. Well, you do; you described it accurately in the paragraph I quoted!
That means that in low light it was bumping up the ISO, it does that because it knows it’s flash won’t be powerful enough, it can’t open the aperture enough and keeping the shutter open longer will result in a blurry picture. Either that or it does some funky post processing that screws with the picture.
