Best Compact Point & Shoot - Low Light

digital504

So shoot all canon professional gear, but I dont always want to carry it around. I'm really looking to get a compact point and shoot digital that is good in low light. Through my own searching I found the Panasonic LX3 to be great in low light, but they not in stock any where ! I have been on a waiting list with Adorama since April and I'm kinda sick of waiting.

So any one have any advice ? Whats the best compact point and shoot for low light shots with the least amount of noise.

Thanks

ziggy53

If you need the lens of the Panasonic LX3 then your choices are limited to that and the Leica DLux4, for a lot more money (but the same camera.)

I do like the FujiFilm F40fd and I still see them sold new and used. I am very pleased with their low-light performance and general usefulness.

This is my cousin in a recent visit (with external flash on a Sunpak slave and using a Demb Flip-It):



Here is a snap taken at Genesis Heart Center while I was waiting for someone:



(The above was a really drab day so it took a lot of post work to get that out of the image, but I'm fairly pleased.)

Also some tests of the F40fd at high-ISO:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=77225

Photog4Christ

digital504 wrote:

So shoot all canon professional gear, but I dont always want to carry it around. I'm really looking to get a compact point and shoot digital that is good in low light. Through my own searching I found the Panasonic LX3 to be great in low light, but they not in stock any where ! I have been on a waiting list with Adorama since April and I'm kinda sick of waiting.

So any one have any advice ? Whats the best compact point and shoot for low light shots with the least amount of noise.

Thanks

I like Panasonic. I have a TZ5, but I did use a Fuji S100FS to take all of these.

ziggy53

Just today Fuji announced an interesting new P&S, the F70EXR:

http://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/digital_cameras/f/finepix_f70exr/specifications/index.html