Shame there's no indoor/low light pics. I have the DMC-FX37 which is a nice little model but the noise in low light/indoors is appalling. I have to manually force the shutter speed and iso levels to get anywhere near a decent image sometimes. outdoors is ok if i don't zoom in too much but I'm not overly impressed. would be nice to see what this did in comparison so i might dig around for more sample shots...

including a dark blue 12M Pixel???

and a pale blue unbranded version??

seconded on the lack of interior sample shots. Daylight vs indoors is a huge difference.

I like the consistency of the euro, the blue door and the cathedral as standard samples, but I'm not such a fan of the general composition. the camera seems to be pointed downward a little too much for me.

El-Reg - could you please include shutter lag times when doing camera reviews?

My biggest problem with most compact cameras is the shutter lag, but some are miles better than others.

I'd highly recommend the Panasonic TZ5 model, got awesome some and great stabilisation.

Another missing statistic: How many mm² is the sensor array?

The bigger the array, the more light you can capture before reaching saturation. More light captured means better contrast at low ISO, and lower noise at high ISO. In fact, the better the picture. My old Fuji 2800Z (1.92MPx) with a freakin' huge array took noticeably better pictures than many 4MPx cameras with smaller arrays.

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike film.