I have had a Nikon S8000, for the past few years and have been very happy with it, It was dropped and broken last week and I just bought 2 of the cameras that are the next generation of my old camera, the new one is the S8100 (it is on sale at Best Buy at least thru Saturday @ $237.00) I think it would be a good buy just for it's camera ability's but it also shoots 1080p HD video of very good quality. I would suggest you give it some consideration when you narrow it down to a few.

Mark