Digital cameral with interchangeable lenses

soupdragon10

I am looking for a digital camera that allows me to change lenses (as I did with my old Mamiya film camera). I take a range of subjects, including birds and other wildlife as well as photographing insects and other small subjects, so a compact with just one lens won't, I think, be able to offer me the ability to do this without the ability to change lenses. What should I be looking for? I use my phone camera for point and shoot, but need clarity to photograph these different subjects.

EssexExile

Look at DSLR or mirrorless.

Nebulous2

What's your budget? 

With a gift from my colleagues at work for my retirement I've just gone to a mirrorless full-frame camera, from a entry level DSLR. To be honest it is probably far more than I need, but improving my photography is part of my plan to fill my time. 

Phone cameras are improving, mirrorless is pushing the technological advances and the middle ground is being squeezed. Wildlife photography can be extremely demanding, with big lenses and fast focusing needed. 

kinger101

For the things you're trying to photograph, the lenses will be more expensive than the camera body.  I'd probably pick up a second hard Nikon or Canon DSLR and lenses from ebay.

forgotmyname

High end phones come with multiple lenses. Watching a phone review the other day and when you take a photo 

it saves a picture for every lens so you can pick and choose which looks best or combine them.

Farway

Forget DSLR, I'd go for mirror less one, the modern mirror less have in body stabilisation as do some of the lenses, plus for wild life rapid auto focus and rapid burst and movie modes

Plus with adaptors you will be able to use your old lenses for your insect / macro work

.The jury is out on pros / cons full frame or M4/3 but if out wildlifing then the lighter & smaller M4/3 weight could be a big factor in your choice, lots on YouTube about this

Andy_L

What's your budget?
What sort of distance & time of day are you looking at? Birds in your back garden is quite different to say, stalking otters out on the wetlands at twilight.
Have you considered a bridge camera? Whilst you can't change the lens their use of a smaller sensor gets chunky zooms out of their lens at the cost of image quality compared to a DSLR/Mirrorless. If you aren't printing the pictures at large sizes that may be an acceptable compromise for the price saving.

photodgm

I agree with many of the posts above. If you can give more information about the types of photos you wish to take, how good you want the quality to be and an idea of your budget I'm sure people can help. However when dealing with high quality photography, especially things like small flying birds, any idea of money saving is a relative concept.