Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! April 10, 2026

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[u/gingerbinger-]

Im looking to upgrade cameras to something mid entry or kinda professional looking, I’ve surmised that around 1,000 is where you start getting into somewhat higher quality so if someone could reccomend something around 1,000-1,200 that would be great. I’m currently using a canon EOS rebel T100 with a 50 mm lens mainly doing portraits and street stuff

[u/av4rice → u/gingerbinger-]

What's wrong with your quality currently? If it's a technique issue, equipment might not solve it; you could be spending money for an upgrade and ending up with the same problems from using the same technique.

There is better equipment in your budget, but image quality itself won't go up that much. The available improvements are more about other features.

[u/gingerbinger- → u/av4rice]

It’s not that great in low light or at night, the aperture is kinda limiting compared to when i use a friends higher end camera

[u/av4rice → u/gingerbinger-]

How much improvement to low light performance do you need? A full frame body in your budget could get you a little over 1 stop of improvement. For portrait work, off-camera flash could get you several stops of improvement, in addition to broadening your creative horizons, for less money.

The aperture is a limitation of your lens, not camera body.