any dslr will do, but i say buy one you can grow into and may even have a hard time growing out of.
you're getting ready to make a big decision if this is something your going to get into this hobby and that is which camp you want to be in and it basically breaks down to nikon or cannon as lenses aren't interchangeable from manufacture to manufacturer, so once you start on a platform and get some lenses together it will be very expensive to switch to the other company....
take a look at it, any of the good lenses will cost more than you paid for the camera itself and there's waaayyy more going on there than weather sealing for that price, the lenses are the key to the whole thing, the quality of camera is meaningless without good glass as the lens is the eyes of the camera and is what actually captures all of the light for the camera to process , think of it as a rev limiter at 1.2k rpm's on an alcohol funny car...
so don't do that, get a good camera but get better glass and glass that will last, imho, this is a bigger choice than which body to get...depending on how long or how much you plan on getting into this...
personally i think if your going to buy a dlsr plan on being in it a long time, i currently use a cannon 60d which is an awesome camera for the money and a cool little secret among the techies , it's one of the few crop sensor cameras that have basically full weather proofing like that found on the higher end full frames like the 7d , the only difference is a single gasket around the sd card door which can be fixed for 20 cents ....anyways i digress, i'm a fan boy of my camera....the point i was making is i bought my first "real" SLR camera in 2000 the cannon elean 7ne, 12 years ago, in that time i acquired a number of lenses for it and built my little collection
then the digital SLR's came in and took hold and most film cameras became obsolete... i didn't buy my first DLSR until 2 years ago,i was able to use all of my old lenses without issues which really saved me alot of money, i hope be using all of my lenses for the next 12 years or more to come as well..... so it may be a hobby that you may not really be all that into but may be in it for the long haul anyways, i was kind of over it once developing film and mixing chemicals became a lost art and anyone could make good photo's using instagram or the like , but i still use all of my old equipment with the new stuff and get great results; so even though i'm not really into photography any more the investment has served me well in the long run, especially on vacations or family events.
i've had my current camera in almost every condition imaginable and it has never let me down, i was really surprised in Thailand and Doha during the monsoons and dust storms that it didn't even flinch, i bought the camera right before that trip with the best buy return plan thinking i would put the camera to the test, the camera won,lol, since then it's been on various road trips,ski trips, and all of the rest . i paired it with a clik elite camera bag and haven't looked back!
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