I want to get a cam but able to tk gd night shots.
Eg: Me with the view when I'm on sg flyer/mbs/clubs n etc..
Always have the problem, is either myself in the pic is brighter or the other way round. Can't get both the lighting view n myself!! Help help.. =<
Looking at something not too complicated!!
You tried to take a night scene (yourself with a nice scenery at the background).
So, I assume the background is at least 50-100m from your back.
Scenario 1 - Your face is brighter (overexposed) and the background is almost black (underexposed)
My Guess: Your flash fired and causing the background to darken.
Scenario 2 - Your face dark (underexpose) and the background is probably clear (or abit underexposed)
My Guess: You did not fire flash and causing ur face to be dark. Camera capture images using light, since got no "light" from your face, therefore it's dark. The background probably have a brighter source that's why it can be captured more clearly.
Lighting wise is as said by ZerocoolAstra. Probably what you need is a blending of images, as in HDR (taking 3 different shots. Underexposed, Overexposed and Normal). I'm not an expert in HDR but, try reading up from Google if you are interested in it.
btw, What you probably need is not a new camera. I suggest you play around more with your current camera and find some workaround it. A new camera most probably won't be useful if the basics are wrong.