Eddaweaver wrote:the base ISO is only 64.
I don't understand this part. If you can actually
set the ISO to 64, I'd be stoked. My lowest native ISO is 200 and I'd love to be able to set it lower if I chose. On the other hand, if that is the native ISO -- by "native ISO" I only mean the ISO higher than which you begin to get noticeable noise -- then that's too slow for everyday snapshooting.
From the little I gather, the S60 has some techie bells and whistles (the touch screen), but some practical disadvantages, especially in terms of its light-gathering ability, meaning poor low-light performance: more times in low light that the shutter speed has to be so slow that it can't stop much motion (you get motion blur); more need for flash; more need for wider apertures resulting in less depth of field... Oh, it's just awful. No, not awful, but a bummer. Well, inconvenient, anyway.
As Edda pointed out, the faster the lens the better. A "fast" lens, oddly enough, means one that has a wider maximum aperture -- you want that for better low-light performance especially. The F-number (the F3.8 and F2.9 that Edda mentioned) refers to its aperture size, and the smaller the number the larger the aperture and the better the lens will gather light.