Best first camera under 1000?

Here is what the site says about that.

From Your first camera: Your first camera: A good phone is a very good camera in daylight. It does a lot of clever processing for you, and it's always in your pocket. So the honest first question is what a real camera would give you that your phone doesn't.

From Wildlife and sport: Shutter speed: To freeze motion: about 1/500s for people running, 1/1000s for most sport, 1/2000s or faster for birds in flight. That pushes ISO up, so a body that stays clean at high ISO matters, and so does modern noise reduction software.

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