Photography

Canon EOS R50. It's sold with various lenses but just get the body and pair it with a Canon RF‑s 18‑150mm IS STM.

This will do 90% of everything you will ever need. Anything beyond that will be very specific and by the time you've discovered what that may be, if at all, you'll know exactly what's needed for that purpose.

This is the best choice for you, nothing else is as suited for your needs. Get it and you won't have to waste time reading reviews, listening to tons of different opinions, endless advice from people who want to sell you something else.

You won't have to worry if you should have got something better or cheaper or with other options.

No, get this and forget about all that. Because the alternative will ultimately mean less photography. And what you want is to spend as much time as possible taking photographs and planning when and where to take more photographs.

Buy this camera and this lens. Read the manual, shoot, learn your camera inside out, shoot more.

Buy a SanDisk Extreme SD card, not the other ones, not other brands, that one.

Shoot JPEGs. Learn how to change your camera settings to get different colours. You don't need RAW files, no matter what anyone tells you. Canon are the experts at the colour your camera makes, get the camera to do that for you.

It's said that to become proficient at photography you have to take about a hundred thousand photos. Your camera can do twice that easily. A few weeks before the warranty expires, send it to Canon for a full service. They will often replace things that are worn even though it works.

Even if in ten years you end up in a specialist field, you'll still have this combo in your bag. It will still be what you use for holidays, for family, for fun.

Enjoy!