Rachel, you'll love the canon it's great I got the twin lens kit on the internet for around $1180 which included a memory card, cleaner, extra charger (I got the case separately on the internet that was really cheap from China, but it's the real canon case). They twin lens kits are priced from about $1400 to $1700 in the shops. The 18-55 lens is standard I think but the 55-200 is the one you can really zoom in and it's great for taking pics from very far away. I just came back from a holiday and took some stunning pictures of these boats going by (they were very far away but in my pictures they look like they are very close ) and the pictures I took from the helicopter were fantastic too.