Quote Originally Posted by 98SS
We went and looked at some cameras today, and I found another (better) model Samsung that had the DIS feature. It allowed me to go into the settings and specifically set the DIS to Off.
Great, I thought. But then I knelt down and took a shot under the counter where there was less light and lo and behold, the camera tried to slow the shutter speed and added DIS even though I had it set to Off. And again, it blurred the picture.

A sales person was telling me about the cameras, and said she would stay away from all of Samsung's cameras as well as Canon's P&S ones because they put all their stock in their SLRs. She felt the Canon SLRs were well worth the money, but not the P&S.
Their SLRs were a bit more than I want to spend, and some of the P&S cams like the Nikon CoolPix and one of the Sony Cybershots seemed pretty flexible.

Think I could just get one with a much higher ISO range (i.e. 3200) and be able to shoot in manual mode with high ISO and fast shutter speed? Is this what I need to be looking for in my next camera?
High ISO is going to get grainy and (unless your going for an artistic look) ugly - especially with a P&S. Cameras aren't magic. If you do not have enough light, you cannot hand hold without seeing camera shake. Things that help (not cure) are tripods, image stabilization, more light, faster (larger aperture) lens and flash. - TF