Yet another What-camera-to-buy-question

Hello everyone,

I am a Olympus E-330 user and basically like the camera a lot. With its
Live View capabilities and the excellent lenses available for comparably
low prices, I've been going well with it so far both for panorama shots
and "normal" photography tasks. But recently I was shooting a big event
for a company where I had to take photos of tech talks (on a dim lit
stage) and people chatting with each other outside while the sun was
going down. It has always been a problem for Four Thirds sensors that
their noise behavior / low light performace is far worse than other
cameras with bigger sensors do. I was already getting into big noise
trouble when I raised ISO just to 400 (it would have allowed me to go up
to ISO 1600), and when I was taking the tech talk shots I had to
intentionally under-expose the pictures by about 1.5 EV in order to not
get blurry pictures although I used a tripod and a lens that starts with
F2.8. Sooooo -- my questions are:

What DSLR cameras might be interesting for low noise / good low-light
performance that:

1. Are rather mid-range than pro-cameras (regarding price, for example
something like Canon 5D MkII would be too expensive for me)
2. Offer either a comparably high dynamic range capture and/or truly (in
praxis) useable exposure bracketing features
3. Have enough necessary additional stuff than can be bought when needed
(compatible flash, (wireless or cable-)remote control, good lenses
(including a decent fisheye), additional battery holder...
4. Offer Live View
5. Have a turnable LCD monitor (at least up and down, left and right
would be nice but not totally necessary).

*Not* so important for me would be:

1. Fast picture series (3 pictures per second are OK)
2. High resolution (about 8 MP would be OK)
3. Ability to capture videos
4. Camera size (can be big and heavy, no problem)
5. "Full Format"-sensor. Certainly nice-to-have, but not necessary for
me (I've always been taking at least 8 shots per panorama).

I don't want to strat any flame wars regarding camera brands, and I'm
sorry if I annoy anyone with these questions... I just thought: Where if
not here at PanotoolsNG can I find such a large amount of knowlegde and
professionalism with photography and panorama techniques. I'd be happy
for any suggestions, although I cannot go and buy a new camera directly
due to loss of money :-( It's rather a long-term decision, especially
since I would have to change my whole system (each and every lens etc.
would have to be bought again).

Any response would be highly appreciated. And thanks to everyone for
building and maintaining this great community!

Best regards, Philipp


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