Looking to step up my camera. Help?

It looks like you are talking about bridge cameras. Personally, I would look towards the powerful point and shoots like the Canon s95 or just going with an entry level dslr. A great Colorado company is The Photo Touch a href="http://www.thephototouch.com/" rel="nofollow"http://www.thephototouch.com//a . They are a pro lab for everyone and have the best results in side by side tests that I have done.