well i no from my best buy days if u wanted to go higher then like 7mp on a point and shoot the lense it self had to be bigger or like u said the picture quality actually went down.i would d/l that program but my hard drive is filled…so i dont have any space…my camera is also i think 4 years old so it could be its time to go 2…ill try lowering the iso first if that doesnt work it gives me a reason to go get a canon S3 IS…i dont have the money to get a digital SLR plus as most of you can tell my camera knowledge isnt really that high and unless i new the manual settings better then i do now it would be a waste of my money i woud think