Before buying this camera, I had originally bought a Kodak Easy Share 8MP. That was a great camera, but it lacked one of the most important features to me- a quick shutter speed. As the mother of a two year-old, it can often be hard to get a good candid shot because of my daughter's short attention span. With the Kodak, she would look at the camera and smile, but by the time the picture was taken, she would have already looked away. I had that camera for 3 weeks and did not get one decent picture of her, which was disappointing because her birthday fell within that time frame.

 I went online and...