There are more or less three brands that I see a lot of on steemit, The Nikon's, the Cannon's, and the Sony's. The Nikon D3600 is a couple of years old, is a pretty decent camera and is generally under $500.00 USD. I am not real familiar with to many of the European Cameras, The ones I mentioned are the DSLR camera's, but there are a lot of real good small point and click digital camera's also. For a few years my wife had a compact digital camera, not much better than a smart phone camera, but a lot cheaper than a smart phone.

So camera's can be a pretty hard thing to search for and then decide if you like the photo hobby. It can be a lot of fun, but also pretty hard to get those killer pictures like the professional camera people. me I'm just a hobbyist hack at photography, but I really do enjoy it a lot, even if it is time consuming.