What Is the Best Camera?

You may just need to adjust your settings. Try taking your current camera into a shop and have them play around with it.

Personally, I love my Nikon DSLR. SO saving up for a new body, however.

My friend went to school for photography and I had this same problem with my camera until I told her. If you take a photo inside and it comes out dark turn the flash off and it will take a brighter indoor picture :) if you are using a point and shoot. I don't know why but it does. I loved my canon (it took dark indoor pics too) but it did not last nearly as long as my kodak did and my kodak was one of the first basic digital cameras and even that one took nice pictures. I have a Nikon right now and I like it.

I have a Nikon DSLR as well (Two, actually!), but the DSLR can be more expensive than your typical point & shoot camera. Before i had my Nikons, my mother in law bought us a Sony Cybershot with a Carl Zeiss lens for christmas 6 years ago. It was a great little point & shoot digital camera! It lasted me about 5 years, had to have it serviced only once. After it literally died, i went out and bought myself my first DSLR camera...never looked back. :) The Nikon Coolpix are a great camera. You don't need high mega-pixels unless you plan on printing out large pictures. The higher the mega-pixels, the higher the photo resolution. You can get a great camera for under $200 now-a-days. Good luck!

JD, you don't mention your level of expertise with a camera or your budget. Are you able to use a SLR or DSLR? If so, there are some nice low grade DSLR's, but I don't know if $1,100 is a drop in the bucket for you or outrages.

So going back to your current camera that takes good pictures outdoors, it is highly unlikely that it takes good outdoor pictures and bad indoor pictures. Do you still have the camera manual? If not, can you look the manual up online? What is the ISO set at? For outdoor photos on a point & shoot, it should be set at about 200 and indoor with some daylight about 400 and indoor with no daylight 800. Is the flash going off? Your camera should be set for flash photos which is usually displayed as a lightening bolt.

If you are having trouble with the night settings on the camera you have, you will encounter the same problems with the new camera, unless the camera is broken. Most cameras don't break in a way that they take great outdoor pics and bad indoor pics.

Give that stuff a try. I hope that helps.

I have the Nikon D5000 and it's amazing! You can't go wrong with Nikon.

I looked up the highest rated point and shoot for dark pictures and in general on Consumer Reports, and the Nikon coolpix 8000 was rated #1. I got it, and it's INCREDIBLE. It blows my old Canon out of the WATER and canons are actually poorly rated which I didn't know. Now nothing blurs and there's no delay and dark pics are properly lit. There are some delux features, and it was $300 for 14 megapixels, but there are cheaper ones with less megapixels and features. You can find the 8000 cheaper online as well-I got mine from Tech For Less open but in original box with warranty for $200, and Wal Mart had them for $250.