I felt so bad about that last photo with the poor photos of this cat. I had to try again! Panasonic GH2 with 20mm F1.7 pancake lens. Photos shot at ISO1600, F1.7, 1/30.
This is more like it. As you can tell by the settings, there wasn’t a lot of light in the room, just a lamp on the bedside table with a compact fluorescent, probably 16 watts or so. I even pushed this in Lightroom 3 by 1.25 stops, as well as juiced up the clarity, vibrance and saturation. The result is very finely detalied with very little noise in the original file – I did not add any in post.
It’s photos like these that may me comfortable with my choice in the GH2…