>>3642344>Beginner here, serious question, for a low budget (400-450E for camera + lens(es)), is it better to get a good smartphone or a low budget camera ? I've read that the gap gets tinier and tinierIf you're really wanting to get into photography, you need to get an actual camera. Something with a larger sensor and interchangeable lenses. Modern smartphones take some pretty good photos, but they're just not at the point where they can legitimately replace even a cheap low end "real" camera, and they likely won't be for the foreseeable future.
On the plus side, you can get a really old, low-end DSLR or mirrorless camera and it will be almost as good as a modern one in terms of helping you learn photography. E.g., you can pick up an older Canon Rebel (something in the EOS xxxD line in Europe, so like a 400D or 450D) with lens for around fifty bucks, so I assume you can pick one up for around the same number of eurobucks. The images you get out of an older camera like that won't be quite as good as those from a modern camera in low light, but in decent light (e.g., daylight, using off-camera flash, or just doing a long exposure at low ISO on a tripod), they'll be close to identical, and miles (kilometers?) better than what you can get from the absolute most modern high-end fancypants cellphone.
