On 1 Sep 2006 20:07:56 -0700, wrote:

my biggest problem with my camera is with low light shots. in low
light, say indoors, its hard to take a picture without flash at a low
iso without getting blur from camera movement because of the slow
shutter speed (if thats what its called, the loooong delay between when
you click and when the picture gets taken when at a low iso in low
light). if i increase the iso the image becomes visibly grainy at 100
iso and at 200 iso its just ruins the picture for me, forget about
400... so i just end up taking 3-4 pictures and usually one of them is
sharp enough. beats taking one grainy picture.
. . .

however looking at
the reviews on this site, the colour in the pictures taken with the f30
don't look that great compared to those taken with the canon who's
colours are much more lush (scroll down to the bottle).

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/fu...ew/index.shtml
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/ca..._sd700-review/

compare with the sony dslr and its obvious the f30 is the odd man out..

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/so...ew/index.shtml

help!

If low light performance is as important as you say, the SD700 is
the first to fall. But neither the SD700 nor the F30 will meet your
expectations because they both lack manual exposure controls.

Dpreview agrees that the because of the F30's tone curve, "images
can look a bit flat", but adds that with a little aid from photo
software the results change from flat to "amazing". Unfortunately,
the only cameras that will do what you want are DSLRs, and if you
get one I hope that you won't mind a little bit of photo processing
on your computer. This is because they tend to produce even flatter
images out of the camera than the F30, so they'll also need some
computer processing to yield the superior results that they are
capable of producing. I haven't checked the reviews, but I'd
suspect that based on the Sony A100's sensor resolution alone, the
entry level DSLRs from Canon and Nikon would be a little better for
shooting in low light conditions.