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Hey,
It's not an 'ultra' compact, but it's pretty small... please check out the Fuji Finepix F30. It's broken some ground in terms of low light performance among digital point and shoots. It has a couple of features that make it really good for this type of shooting:
-"Intelligent" flash, which increases sensitivity to light and turns the flash down as far as possible automatically, resulting in a nicely lit foreground and a darkened background. This means that the camera can use a higher shutter speed than normal in synch flash mode, resulting in less camera blur... huge in dark conditions.
- 'Natural Light & Flash' mode takes two shots automatically right after each other, one with flash and one without at a higher ISO, so you can choose the best one.
-High ISO of 3200!! This is pretty darned high and means the camera can shoot in VERY low light. Of course, the images get pretty grainy when you shoot at that high of an ISO, but on the plus side, this camera does a great job of avoiding graininess all the way up to ISO 800 or so, which means that it's still more usable in low light than most on the market.
It isn't a perfect camera- it has a few color/ tone issues, but really, honestly nothing that you can't fix by playing with the contrast a little if you don't quite like the Auto settings.
As Ardi said, yes to take superb photos in the conditions you're describing you'll need a pretty fancy camera. But if you just want a point and shoot I highly recommend the F30.
It's not an 'ultra' compact, but it's pretty small... please check out the Fuji Finepix F30. It's broken some ground in terms of low light performance among digital point and shoots. It has a couple of features that make it really good for this type of shooting:
-"Intelligent" flash, which increases sensitivity to light and turns the flash down as far as possible automatically, resulting in a nicely lit foreground and a darkened background. This means that the camera can use a higher shutter speed than normal in synch flash mode, resulting in less camera blur... huge in dark conditions.
- 'Natural Light & Flash' mode takes two shots automatically right after each other, one with flash and one without at a higher ISO, so you can choose the best one.
-High ISO of 3200!! This is pretty darned high and means the camera can shoot in VERY low light. Of course, the images get pretty grainy when you shoot at that high of an ISO, but on the plus side, this camera does a great job of avoiding graininess all the way up to ISO 800 or so, which means that it's still more usable in low light than most on the market.
It isn't a perfect camera- it has a few color/ tone issues, but really, honestly nothing that you can't fix by playing with the contrast a little if you don't quite like the Auto settings.
As Ardi said, yes to take superb photos in the conditions you're describing you'll need a pretty fancy camera. But if you just want a point and shoot I highly recommend the F30.
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