My Olympus E-30 offers the BEST dynamic range of any camera I laid my hands on. That is why all of the above issues for me are "SOLVED".

The DPreview.com review of the Olympus E-30 said, "The JPEG quality is superb, with excellent dynamic range and a slightly more subtle approach to color and contrast than we're used to from Olympus, giving results that look great 'out of the can' but respond well to post processing too. The tone curve manages to avoid clipping highlights even at ISO 100 (which as our tests show is not the optimum setting - ISO 200 gives you a stop more range), and highlight range stays consistently high throughout the higher sensitivity range."