>>3012715>The main thing for me is that these pictures, even if I do have to take them at 5-8mp for a usable photo, will look considerably better than what I'm currently working with. I'm not sure you'd get that if you used these more modest lenses with, say, an old 12MP DSLR.
You already had a modest lens on the smartphone, but it had a newer though smaller sensor. The net result would be fairly comparable. Even then, your smartphone actually might still be capable of shooting at a faster pace and things like that.
The main advantage I could see for an *old* DSLR on a tripod is that it probably would be easier to trigger a bigger on-camera or off-camera flash...
> But I just want something where I don't feel like I need to take 10 pics, then sort for the best one capturing the details I want in the way I want. At least not at the same level.Then I'd probably to start with just a somewhat recent modern APS-C. D3300, D5500, even D7200. Something like that? Such a new-ish camera with a newer, better sensor will generally be 24MP.
[Plus maybe still use an extra flash, but you can get that later.]
With that, you'd fairly clearly have a better sensor and body to work with...
