Spend more time looking at what lenses you might want to get to achieve the look you're after, and choose a compatible body from that. Lenses make the biggest d

Spend more time looking at what lenses you might want to get to achieve the look you're after, and choose a compatible body from that. Lenses make the biggest difference, and will always outlive the bodies. Mirrorless is the way of the future, but SLR systems are often cheaper for the same image quality. For example the selection F mount lenses for full frame cameras is particularly impressive. And many of them are cheap new and cheaper used as pros switch to mirrorless. You can start out with a colour camera and change your raw files to black and white, and then later when you're looking into upgrading, do a monochrome conversion. One advantage with Fujifilm (and possibly other brands, would be interesting to hear which ones) is that you can set it to show the image in black and white in the viewfinder, but record the full raw file on the card.