First Time Buyer

[clone7]

Hey Everyone,

I would like to get my friend a SLR for a gift. They are new to SLR’s and have never owned one. They know how to use a point and shoot camera (they right now have a canon sd1200) and seem to use it pretty well. I am looking for suggestions on what to get them. I don’t know anything about SLR’s so please excuse me if I ask any dumb questions.

They like to take pictures on the outdoors, close ups of insects, and landscape. They don’t own any lenses at moment so a package deal that comes with a lens would be great. Light weight and on the smaller size would be great because I know they would want to take it everywhere with them.

I am looking at spending around $500-800. I live in Canada so I would prefer to buy it from a Canadian retailer.

Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks 