I'm a university student in Asia. I don't have much money saved; I'm doing several part-time jobs but I'm not making much money overall because of that much spending. I'm intending to use more or less $1000 for the body, bundle or basic lens, mcuv, sd card etc.

Purpose:
I'm a film enthusiast. I'm not majoring in any of the related arts but I enjoy watching movies and have made several shorts with a friend of mine with a very extremely crappy video camera. I was never really interested in photography though (which seems kind of weird thinking now) so I never thought of getting a decent camera. And I always thought that I enjoy film just as a pastime and I didn't really feel like investing a lot of money into it (until now), not to mention the fact that my parents' income is not very high. But several months ago, I suddenly decided that I wanted to shoot some decent photos and films and thought that DSLRs would be a nice place to start leaning about them. I know DSLRs are not really made for filming, but I really want to learn photography as well so I don't think buying a camcorder or a video camera is going to work. And I don't want to buy a mirrorless either; I want to try out on optical viewfinder, just like old SLRs.

So long story short: I want to buy a DSLR, costing roughly around $1000 or less, to use it as an introduction to photography and film. But it has to be of decent quality, not TOO elementary.

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If you're truly just interested in "finding out" if you want to pursue photography, just cheap out and go to Wal-Mart and pick up a Nikon D3300 with two lenses for about $600. It's entry level, but more than adequate for your purposes, and it takes decent quality video as well.