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DPReview complains quite strongly about noise at low light levels, going so far as to say that the really high ISO settings are "unusable."

I think noise at low light levels means the camera firmware is being allowed to "push" the low light sensitivity past what the CCD can realistically deliver well. A lot of my indoor non-flash photos on my Panasonic DMC-FX9 are quite grainy, but at least I'm getting *some* indoor non-flash photos, something I couldn't do at all with my small-size Canon cameras.

I've seen what a decent professional-grade DSLR can do in low light, and it's rather amazing. Nowhere near the noise that that review of the Panasonic FZ series is talking about. Of course, you then are talking about spending big bucks. And a large camera.

Didn't I bring up a thread with this very topic a while back, when I was in the market for a new compact digicam?