I think we should understand three points first:
1. Be sure that you really love photography, not three minutes of enthusiasm. I have two friends around me. A few years ago, they asked me what camera I should buy to learn photography. I say you buy an entry machine or a card machine first, and then gradually buy a better camera to a certain extent. As a result, they saw the beautiful photos in the photo exhibition, and then they were fascinated by others, and their blood suddenly boiled. They bought Canon 5D3 and Nikon D81 in one step. A few years later, I asked them to exchange the photos they took. As a result, they said that it was useless to put the camera in the camera bag, and I was afraid it was rusty.
2. You must be sure that you have both creative enthusiasm and creative ability. Photography is actually created with a camera, just like a musician performing on the piano and violin. It can't be said that making the piano and violin sound is music, nor can it be said that taking photos with a camera is photography. One of my classmates is a calligrapher. His works have participated in large and small calligraphy and painting exhibitions and won awards frequently.
As a friend, I have no scruples, so I often comment on my photos. One day, I joked with him that when you buy a camera, I will see if you will talk or not. Soon he really bought a camera, and then he often asked me questions about photography and always praised my photos. The reason is that he thought that a simple thing was not easy until he did it himself. Later, I once asked him to go out for a tour. He said that the camera was given to his son, and that the interlacing was like a mountain, so I should honestly write my own words.
3. Be sure that you have enough patience and determination to overcome all difficulties. Of course, learning photography begins with speed aperture sensitivity, then tripod, cable release, flash, then UV mirror, polarizer, gradient mirror, then framing, composition, lighting, then color temperature, hue, saturation, contrast, and then layers, masks, curves and matting? It's estimated that it will take at least a year or so to understand these things.
Then, if you like landscape photography, you should be prepared to get up early, get greedy for the dark, have a picnic, travel across mountains and rivers, and know astronomy and geography. If you like to shoot humanities, you should be familiar with local customs and ethnic knowledge. If you like news photography, your life can't be regular, and you may even risk your life, for example, talking about interviewing in war zones, etc. Are you really ready?
Maybe you'll say that I'm talking nonsense. You just want to get a camera to play with. It's not that complicated. Then I can only say that the door of photography is always open to you, and you can play whenever you want.