i don't know if this helps.

but i used to carry around a cheap, very heavy, very bulky and very sturdy tripod to museums and galleries. One day i just got lazy and didnt bring the burdensome thing and just stepped in with my C8080 and did this lil trick.

i kept the setting at auto but pumped up the ISO and did continous shootings at ISOs 250, 320 and 400 on each item. some minor photoshop adjustments (levels and or auto levels, auto colors, brightness contrast and maybe a lil despeckle in the noise filter) later in the computer and i usually have at least one good image in my 5-9 frames.

i'd like to add however that my shots are for a lifestyle section of a paper so they are not meant to be printed big.