camera follow issues

#pragma strict

var moveSpeed : float = 15;//character move speed
var mainChar : GameObject;//main character/player object
var mainCam : GameObject;//main camera object
var mainCharLoc : Vector3;//location of main character object, later established
var mainCamLoc : Vector3;//location of main camera object, later established
var deadZone : float = .1;//deadzone for camera follow
var camSpeedCoef : float = 10;//camera move speed

function Start () {
    if(mainChar==null)//finds the game objects
        mainChar = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");
    if(mainCam==null)
        mainCam = GameObject.FindWithTag("MainCamera");
}

function Update () {
    //setting up controls for the character
    var charVertTrans : float = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * moveSpeed;
    var charHoriTrans : float = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * moveSpeed;

    charVertTrans *= Time.deltaTime;
    charHoriTrans *= Time.deltaTime;

    mainChar.transform.Translate(charHoriTrans,charVertTrans,0);

    //reads the position of the objects
    mainCharLoc = mainChar.transform.position;
    mainCamLoc = mainCam.transform.position;

    //creates the floats later used for the camera transform
    var camVertTrans : float;
    var camHoriTrans : float;

    //camera movement speed arguments
    //this is the dead zone of the character for the horizontal dimension
    //basically, if the camera is close enough to the character horizontally, nothing happens
    if(mainCamLoc.x < (mainCharLoc.x + deadZone) && mainCamLoc.x > (mainCharLoc.x - deadZone))
        camHoriTrans = 0;
    //if the camera is to the right the dead zone, it is supposed to move (left) towards the character
    //in relation to how far away it is
    //(basically the distance between them to the power of the camera speed coef)
    else if(mainCamLoc.x > (mainCharLoc.x + deadZone))
        camHoriTrans = -1 * Mathf.Pow((mainCamLoc.x - mainCharLoc.x),camSpeedCoef);
    //same thing only the camera is to the right of the deadzone and moves left
    else if(mainCamLoc.x < (mainCharLoc.x - deadZone))
        camHoriTrans = 1 * Mathf.Pow((mainCharLoc.x - mainCamLoc.x),camSpeedCoef);

    //same thing but for the vertical dimension
    if(mainCamLoc.y < (mainCharLoc.y + deadZone) && mainCamLoc.y > (mainCharLoc.y - deadZone))
        camVertTrans = 0;
    else if(mainCamLoc.y > (mainCharLoc.y + deadZone))
        camVertTrans = -1 * Mathf.Pow((mainCamLoc.y - mainCharLoc.y),camSpeedCoef);

    else if(mainCamLoc.y < (mainCharLoc.y - deadZone))
        camVertTrans = 1 * Mathf.Pow((mainCharLoc.y - mainCamLoc.y),camSpeedCoef);

    //moves the camera
    mainCam.transform.Translate(camHoriTrans,camVertTrans,0);

    //even though there isnt a direct correlation between these,
    //they read nearly the same (to the thousandths place) even if I change the coef drastically
    //and so my camera almost follows the char to the T aside from the dead zone
    print("Cam: " + camHoriTrans + " Char: " + charHoriTrans);
}