Digital SLR Camera Advice..

[Cuppa]

Before going for a DSLR I'd suggest checking out some of the great mirrorless cameras out there now. They do all that you'd do with a DSLR, but are smaller & easier to cart around.
If you can live without the niceties of the very latest offerings there are new mirrorless cameras out there which will give a lot of bang for the buck for around $1k or less..... new & with a couple of lenses.

Eg Sony A6000 - check it out along with comparable others.

I bought the A6500 - much the same camera but 2 generations on & with 'in camera' optical stabilisation (which I wanted) & 4k video (which I didn't). '

One reason I wanted to upgrade was for better low light performance. The following photo isn't special in anyway, just a 'run of the mill' example of a handheld snapshot at 1/60th second as I was walking around Launceston's Automobile museum under not particularly bright artificial lights. No editing. Sooner or later you will want to do some editing & having a camera which can shoot Raw rather than just JPG's will allow you to do far more. This photo could be enhanced in lots of ways but the downside they are big files. The original of this is around 24Mb.