Everybody has an opinion. Here's mine.

It's for a 10 year old. Whatever you get, she will eventually grow out of it like she grows out of clothes. A simpler camera is both appropriate to her age and hand size. It will give her a lot to work with and learn. She probably won't outgrow the capabilities of a good bridge camera as her first until she has a few years of experience taking hundreds or thousands of pictures. Let her explore her world and photograph what is important to her. Is there a book/used book that explains the camera you want to gift her? Great package deal.

If she asks for help, feedback or to go on a photo shoot with you, you've got a buddy and budding photographer. If the gift is too complicated and confusing for a 10-11 year old, you might stifle her interest and enthusiasm.

What a nightmare I am experiencing getting my camera body and three lenses back from service.
First attempt “by end of business day”. So much for the “end” part. I was out riding my horse at 10:45 a.m. when they made the first delivery attempt.

Second attempt with same timeframe both my husband and I were home...he outside with the RV running (he does monthly service checks) and me 30’ from the front door tidying our indoor/outdoor porch. He saw nothing and I heard nothing. Obviously the driver didn’t make much of an attempt. I immediately called FedEx to complain and said WTF...how could he have missed us? Offered the option to have package left at local dropzone by 6 p.m.....guess what...package was never dropped.

Called FedEx again. By this time I was losing patience, getting frustrated and increasingly concerned about my expensive gear taking an east coast tour. Was told driver would make second attempt that evening. Three guesses (first two don’t count): no package.

It is now 6 a.m. on Day 3... do I know where my package is? Guess....see previous sentence above.

I am disgruntled, worried and expect to spend the day sitting on my front stoop...in the rain...with signs lining my (longish) driveway saying (in red ink)...hey FedEx guy, I’m here. Call me! Written in caps.

Moral of the story: think twice before requiring a signature. I thought I was doing the prudent thing, but it has come back to bite me in the *ss.

Unless you want to greatly improve your bokah performance. One of your zooms would probably do. Take your camera to a photo shop along with one of your current zooms that would cover the 85mm FL and do some wide open shots (available lighting) with preferrable pinpoint highlights in the background and compare the zoom with the proposed 85mm prime you're interested in. If the results are just a blurred background w/o round spots or donuts than it would make sense to me. If the bokah is very close to your zoom, I see no point.

You can always make up for low level lighting by upping the ISO with a ZOOM but there is nothing like a nice, clean blurred background in some cases. At that point, the 85mm prime might make a lot of sense to me

Good luck, Alan