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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aroy" data-source="post: 645508" data-attributes="member: 16090">Avoid second hand equipment if you have no idea of what and how to look for. Stick to new equipment at this stage, unless you have an experienced DSLR shooter to guide you.Shooting with DSLR is completely different experience compared to iPhone. You may be excellent shot with a phone but may not like lugging a DSLR and a few lenses around. Unless you use the DSLR as a Point & Shoot, getting images comparable to phones will take some skill, especially when images are taken in broad daylight and compared. I shot film cameras for nearly 30 years before I started using phones for my job related photos. I have shot a few hundred thousand images of roads and buildings, with various phones in a ten year period. After I retired I got a DSLR. There are still situations where a phone is a much better option, as it is quite discrete and small.So I would suggest that you get a kit consisting of D3300/D3400 with a kit lens a 32GB card and a bag. This kit is available at quite a reasonable cost. Try it out and if you do not like the DSLR experience sell the kit. You will not loose more that $100. If you like the DSLR and its images, then after  some time, upgrade to better lenses first and a better body after a year or so. As there is no end to new equipment you will desire once you are hooked, better use what you have for at least six months and then evaluate what you need, before buying.One thing that you must be cognizant of is that, to get the best out of modern Digital Images, you shoot in RAW and then post process the images to get the best of the Dynamic Range and Exposure Latitude (not to mention colour correction, noise suppression and a host of other operations). So along with DSLR you have to invest in Computer Hardware as well as RAW processing software, and most important - TIME.</blockquote>

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