Upgrade from 1100D (and is it worth it)

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Hello everyone

I've had my trusty 1100D for 8 years or so now (well not so trusty as it went in for repair twice with shutter errors) and I've learned about the basics of photography with it even if I haven't taken that many photos with it. Maybe 3,500 or so. I got it as the display model for about £200 with the 18-55 lens so I feel that I've got my monies worth from it. I get equal amount of enjoyment from tinkering with settings (i.e. a nice way of saying playing around with it) as I do composing and taking the actual photographs. I barely qualify as a hobbyist I think as I don't have a Flickr page or anything and don't use Photoshop! I take it on days out and things.

Anyway one of the things I would like from a new camera (and really spurred me to start looking) is 1080p 60fps recording, ideally with shutter control for filming screens (ranging from 50 to 144Hz). I can do this on my phone (without the refresh rate sync) but it's quite noisy.

I've been looking at the 250D as a replacement so I can keep my original lens. But I am not sure how much of an upgrade it will be. I'm not that interested in features like WiFi or Bluetooth, I don't mind dumping 100 photos off my SD card, I am more interested in colour reproduction, performance in moderate and low light situations, and how it handles shots with a high dynamic range.

What would you do? Will I see much difference from an upgrade to a Canon 250D with an 8 year old lens?
 
If you want to do lots of video that analog era flappy mirror is only in the way of things.
Like forcing using rear LCD for video instead of being able to use viewfinder.
Not to forget image size and framing accuracy issues of small OVF:
If you compare framing through SLR viewfinder and in taken image you might find some stuff "growing" at edges you didn't want in image like corner of building, twig, tree branch etc.

Mirrorless is better in those and especially Panasonic has long been pushing video features.
Not even sure if all cameras offer shutter speed priority for video, or if it's cwe just ticked that video checkbox for ad.
(Panasonic should have it and Olympus has in E-M10 II/III)

EVF's live view giving idea of exposure could also get you to start controlling exposure more yourself.
 
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