The newer digital cameras are inexorably pulling away from the capabilities of traditional film for night photography. Particularly if you shoot in color, the ability of digital cameras to properly color balance all the artificial light sources is a huge advantage in using digital for taking nighttime photographs. The super-sensitive sensors now available on even very small cameras give us the ability to walk around with no tripod and take some very high quality photos that contain very little objectionable noise (digital grain). Here are a few photos I took with a GF1 at ISO 1600. All of them are handheld, and all were exposed using the manual exposure setting on my camera.