Well that's good news! Thanks.
I just got the standard 18-55mm lens to start with, I was also wondering what the next logical step should be as far as lenses go. And what about add-on flashes? Are they useful for the average user? This stuff is down the road (gotta love gifts that provide more gift idea opportunities later on).
If you're looking for cheap, you can pick up a Tamron 70-300 mm lens for just a little over $100. It isn't a great lens by any stretch of the imagination, but a nice little step up from the factory-supplied 18-55mm lens. Picture quality won't be any better, but you're obviously gonna be able to reach out a little further and snap photos and the narrower depth of field at larger focal lengths adds a nice touch even on P mode (which is what I love to shoot on due to a combination of ignorance and laziness
). Lots of photogs consider using a Tamron lens to be the equivalent of heresy but I use them some for work and of the 3 or 4 I've owned, I've only had an issue with one of them.
But of course once she really starts wanting to test the limits of that camera's capabilities, you'll find that you've opened a Pandora's box...filters, polarizers, etc. The cost of the camera body itself was just a drop in the bucket.