This is my mom's housemate, Lilly. This was taken in very low light with no flash. And although you can see noise, I don't think it's unpleasant or distracting. To be sure I made a print at 8.5x11 and I think it looks pretty good. I wouldn't want to shoot a landscape or something where fine detail was critical, at ISO 800 with the LX2. But I'm more than happy with this photo. And the Panasonic's MEGA O.I.S. image stabilization made this photo possible handheld at 1/20th second.