Thanks to your helpful feedback, I decided on the SLR-like
Panasonic Lumix. (Thanks, Anonymous, whoever you are!) It's not a full-on SLR, but I want to make sure I'm actually going to use it before sinking money into a big girl camera. I've only started playing around with the settings and functionality, but so far I love it. With fewer than a dozen photos snapped, I got this shot in the living room, at night, with very low light and no flash:
With the old camera this would have been a blurry mess or almost black. I am in love!
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