The most popular brand in the world is Canon. The other brands are good also, but, Canon is the best selling. Refurbished is fine, used may be better. These cameras are very well built and if treated with respect, will last a long time. I have both mirrored and mirrorless, also, a couple of bridge cameras. A number have been bought used from eBay, and UHH. Look for low shutter counts and a source that allows returns if not satisfied. Don’t spend a lot of money until you decide if you like photography. You can find a very nice used DSLR with a good variable focal length lens for less than $500. Most likely.
Watch out for Vietnamese sellers. eBay covered the loss.
Any little critter they can catch and kill before it kills them.
I have a Tamron 90 mm and love. It. Bought on EBay used for a good price.
I have an r6 I’ll sell for $1500. Very little use on it. I upgraded to a new r6ii at Xmas.
Enjoyed. No wonder they cost what they do.
I use an sd card adapter to lightning which fits in the charging portal of my I pad. Got it from Amazon. Mine has a compact flash card slot and an sd card slot. My camera can auto transfer as Paul suggested, but, I too am computer /tech naive.
Pam Hewstone wrote:
I have a Sony RX10 Mark 4. 24-600m. It is a heavy camera, soft at 500-600mm, unless on a tripod, apart from that I find it a good camera. However I don’t think it fits in your budget.
One is for sale on eBay fora little over $1000. I have one and take it most of the time on inspections of my ranch. I never know what photos of opportunity I’m going to stumble onto. I think the lens is fine at 500-600 mm. It is hard to get acceptable hand held photos at that range with any camera. I take one of the Canons if I have a specific task that I am photographing.
The bottom bird resembles a red billed pidgeon,a wild pidgeon specie found near the coast in north eastern Mexico.
Others have mentioned Wasabi batteries. Work well for me and are very reasonable. I use them on the RX10 MKIV and my Canons. I have Canon batteries also.
Those bison had a tough winter
On looking at those hand wheels on each side of the engine, I suspect they were a means to crank the engine to life without having to get down out of the seat.