>>3645169> be honest, I was checking youtube for "top budget cameras" and the only ones I liked were $400+.Those videos will be telling you about cameras to buy new. For a budget of $150, you're gonna be looking at older used cameras if you want anything decent.
My recommendation as a Canon guy would be for you to get a used Canon EOS 40D plus EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS, which should come in comfortably under that number.
> Why is it so hard to take nice 1080p pictures?It's not. "1080p" is about 2 megapixel, and even really old shitty digital SLRs are gonna be at least 6MP. The 40D that I recommended is 10MP, and the K-5 the other guy recommended is 16MP.
Photos out of your cellphone are gonna be shitty because cellphones have a shitty small imaging sensor and a shitty small lens in front of it. Even a cheap old DSLR will have a sensor vastly larger, and you can put really good lenses in front of it to get good photos. Really, sensor size is a lot more important than resolution, but resolution goes on a spec sheet a lot more easily. In reality, an old 6 megapixel digital SLR from over a decade will give you much better looking images than a 100 megapixel cellphone camera made this year
