How about Nikon L320 for beginners in high school photography? Or other recommendations, 1000 to 1600.

If you want to learn photography seriously, you must buy a camera that can control the shutter and aperture manually.

The L320 you chose didn't give you the function of manual control. He's a complete idiot. If you want to learn photography with it, you can only learn composition.

Professional camera, the price of 1000, may only be bought second-hand. Or go to amoy a second-hand film SLR, which is more fun than a digital camera, but the later development and printing will be more troublesome and expensive than a digital camera!

If you have a budget of 2000 yuan, you can buy an entry-level micro-single, which can actually be used to learn photography.

With a budget of about 2500, you can buy a Nikon digital SLR kit D3000, which is very suitable for learning photography.

Attention! Elective courses in the school are not professional enough. Will it be unacceptable to do it all by hand?

Supplement to answer your question:

Ask yourself first: Do you really want to learn? Or do you just want to be a fool with a fool machine?

It doesn't mean you have to do it manually. At least you can control the aperture and shutter. Otherwise, all these decisions are left to the machine. What do you study?

At this stage, you really have nothing to say that you are professional to a certain extent. At best, you have learned the English alphabet.

One of my former teachers told me that I was still a beginner when I really learned to control the depth of field with aperture.

Up to now, I have used a SLR. Different lenses, different focal lengths, different bodies and different distances have been unable to accurately grasp the aperture value used to control the required depth of field. ...

Therefore, the real major is still far away. ...