I need help buying a good video camera.

Please help me find a good camera?

• recently i've been trying to find a good camera. i have been having no luck. please help me find a good camera that takes good pictures in low light, has HD video recording, has a pretty good zoom, a camera that can fit in your pocket, a good camera for hanging out with friends and taking pictures, a camera that turns on very quickly, takes execellent pictures at concerts, and takes good pictures of fast moving objects. my mom is taking me to a Taylor Swift concert in couple months and i want to have the perfect camera to take pictures. my mom said she'll be willing to buy me any camera i want for Christmas(not necessarily any camera, just point and shoot). yesterday my friend suggested that i check out the samsung tl220, the canon powershot sd960 and the canon powershot sd940. do u think those are good cameras? if u find better ones please tell me. i DON'T plan on buying sony, fuji film, kodak, exilm, or panasonic cameras!!! I need to find a camera that has a quick start up time, a good zoom, HD video, burst mode, a camera that doesn't have shutter lag, and a camera that has the ability to use zoom during video taking and the ability to take stills from videos. But the most important for me is a good zoom(4-5x), quick start up time, burst mode, no shutter lag, and portability. 15-1/1500 sec is the shutter speed for the canon sd940, is the shutter speed fast or slow? 15-1/1600 sec. is the shutter speed for the canon powershot sd960, is the shutter speed fast or slow? 1 - 1/2000 sec. is the shutter speed for the samsung tl220, is the shutter speed fast or slow? PLEASE HELP ME FIND A CAMERA, I NEED TO FIND THE PERFECT CAMERA!!!!

• Answer:

  I purchased a Nikon Coolpix S630 just before I went to Europe five weeks ago. After 1000 pictures of mountain tops, boat rides, dark rooms and action shots, I am done testing it and am very pleased. For years I wanted a hassle-free camera with a high amount of optical zoom yet small in size, shoots well without a lot of light and a number of other features. I hoped to spend less money but was afraid a cheaper camera would frustrate me due to lack of features, poor quality or confusing operation. The S630 gives me all I want in a camera for a reasonable price. My cousin was a professional photographer and he is impressed with how well this camera performs. Closeups of flowers are spectacular. Pictures displayed on a 42" TV have great resolution and color accuracy. Pictures in poorly lit rooms come out with amazing clarity. Video and audio quality also are impressive. Reading reviews critical of this camera made me a little nervous about deciding to buy this camera but I am glad that I figured out they are overly critical except for the zoom speed. The zoom motor is too fast and you often overshoot where you want it to stop. All too often it will not stop where you want it to and you have to walk forward or backward to frame the shot. No camera will always produce a perfect shot on the automatic setting. Photography is a learned skill. The large screen lets you see if the shot did not come out right. You learn and try one of the other settings available. Battery life was roughly 125 pics. Nikon Coolpix S630 12.0-megapixel resolution for photo-quality prints up to 16 x 20 inches 7x optical Zoom-Nikkor (37-260mm) glass lens; 4-way VR image stabilization 2.7-inch high-resolution LCD screen; Scene Auto Selector Nikon's Smart Portrait System; Red-eye Fix, Face Priority AE and more Capture images to SD/SDHC memory cards