Best Camcorder for $200?

Hai:3 i'm very experienced for my age in photography, and i'm 13. I want to be a film-maker or photographer when i get older, and i would like to start practicing. What's a good camcorder by nikon, canon, sony, etc etc for like makeup tutorials, short films, and just to record anywhere for around $250? Something that has good autofocus also.

Dear Tiffany,
I ordered the camcorder(Panasonic HDC-SD80R) from 6 Ave through Amazon. I took advantage of free shipping and it was here before the guarantied delivery time. The camcorder was packaged well. You need to order a SD card (8 or 16Gig) class 6 or 10, Mini HDMI to Std. HDMI cable and an extra battery, and charger (the charger that comes with the unit charges the battery in the camera). The software included with the camera will allow you to edit and burn AVCHD DVD discs. These are standard DVDs that will play in many BluRay players. Now if you want to do some serious DVD editing use Roxio Creator 2010-2012(the program handles MTS files after downloading K-lite codecs) I must admit when I first got the camcorder I thought about sending it back because Windows Media Player and several other players didn't like the MTS/M2TS files and my editing software didn't recognize those files(K-lite codecs fixed those issues). The zoom, stabilization and picture quality is awesome for this price camcorder. I just got back from a trip to Manhatten and took over an hour of videos, looked at them on my 50 inch TV and still didn't need the second battery. It will fit in a shirt pocket.