right now I have a Konica Minolta Dimage Z3 and I used it at my sons wedding and the pictures I took at his reception were extremely grainy to the point where I cant use them for even just 4*6 prints. For a point & shoot digital camera, the Fujifilm F-series is probably the best for low-light situations. Here are some owners opinions for the newly released F31fd - http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/read_opi...
and here's a detailed review - http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm... - the review is several pages long, be sure to checkout the other pages also to see how it compares to other cameras in its class, and the sample photo gallery. Each camera has different characteristics when it comes to how they record high ISO images.
There is no guarantee that a camera which will record an image at 3200 ISO will have acceptable noise in the image.
My point and shoot makes terrible images at 800 ISO, yet my old D100 makes amazing shots at 6400 ISO. Most of this I think has to do with the size of the sensor. The D100's sensor is six times larger than the point and shoots, yet they both have 6mp sensors. my suggestion
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the guide should answer your questions For low-light, no-flash situations, even the cheapest DSLR outperforms any compact.
This is because the larger sensor has a better signal-to-noise ratio at high gain (high ISO).
An added twist is that compacts with high pixel counts (6 and up) are in most cases worse than lower MP compacts at ISO 400 and above.
On the other hand, a D80 or Canon 30D makes great pix at ISO800 and up. I recently shot a family afternoon with my D50 mistakenly set at ISO1600. The pix looked fantastic.
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