Hey everyone,
I'm looking for a camera that takes amazingly detailed closeups. It should be under $900 Canadian. I really want an SLR but I want more photography experience before I invest $3000 in an SLR camera, lenses and accessories. I need a camera that takes excellent photos for close-ups of insects, spiders and ofcourse reptiles. Alot of the cameras I've looked into, do take beautiful photos but they do not take very good close-ups of things such as snake scales, snake/tarantula eyes, caterpillars, dragon/garden flies etc. It should show every bit of detail and be somewhat user friendly.
So what do you guys (and gals) recommend? Close-up photos taken by that camera to give me an idea of what it's capable of would be nice.

Thanks so much!
P.S. The snow is almost all gone and this herper girl can't wait to get out there!!!

All I need now is an excellent camera.