Trever,

If you want a really nice camera, get a Nikon. Coolpix 775 is fairly reasonable and is a great camera. There's lots of good review sites worth reading online for digital cameras. Here's a good link to start on:

http://www.megapixel.net/html/issueindex.html

Or just search for digital camera reviews on google.com

Of course there's lots of other good brands too, just gotta read around and find out what's a good model for the price right now.