How to possibly save up for an expensive camera as a teenager?

I'm a 14 year old girl obsessed with videography/ photography and wanting to upgrade my cam. I've got a standard Nikon dslr which I've had for a couple years and love it just I feel that I'm not able to use it to the best of my abilities because it is a very beginner camera and its not too well for video. The problem is is that the camera I want http://www.amazon.com/...00I9GYG8O/ is 1.5k$ body only and as a teenager I can't have a job to make that kind of money. I've wanted this camera for half a year and never saved up because I just saw it as so unrealistic and I still do because its just a lot of money but I really want to pursue my hobby and hopefully future career by buying it. No matter how long it takes how can I save up that much money?

Buy a second hand one

The same way we did.

I stopped buying fast food and put that money in a special box in my desk. When I needed new sneakers, I bought them on sale and did not buy the most expensive brand. That savings I also placed in the box

Any change you have in your pocket at the end of each day, also goes into the box.

I'm totally surprised that your Nikon digital SLR camera can't shoot perfectly fine video. My guess is that you are trying to shoot video indoors without any supplemental lighting. NO camera will produce good video unless you have a high enough light level, usually meaning that you replace the lamps in your lights in your home with 250 watt bulbs and add some overall "bounced lighting" using two 500 watt lamps.

Add light to your video scenes and I'm sure that your video using your Nikon digital SLR will improve in amazing ways.

Sound? You will need to learn how to use dual sound recording no matter what camera you have. For under $100, you can buy a Zoom H1 to record pristine sound which you can later sync using your video editing program. Once it is synced, you can then delete the crummy sound recorded by the cameras microphone

I suspect that your current Nikon will actually do a much better job than you have experienced. Shooting good video with a DSLR camera is a bit of a challenge for anyone but with the right light, right technique, right settings, right lens, a good video tripod, my guess is that you could be making videos about as good as the other camera you want -- although not in 4K.

However, if you just want a new camera because a new camera is always nice, then…

How hard is it to save? There's only one way. Don't spend your money!

Make sure all your family know that you want this camera and that you're putting away so much per week towards it. Let them know that you're happy with 'pre-loved' items until you've saved enough. Say you don't need special birthday and christmas presents, just contributions towards the camera.

Before you ditch your present DSLR, try to find someone who knows DSLRs and maybe could lend you a lens or two so that you could expand your experience with a DSLR.

What actually are the limitations that you find with your present camera? Without experience you might find similar limitations to your expectations with any new camera that you buy.

The 'pro' market has experts who are used to the SLR format and probably have a large library of lens's.

The camera companies have been shoe-horning video features into the SLR body to let these guys stay with the 'family'.

Newbies see pros using a DSLR style camera for video and think "I should get a DSLR to shoot video too".

But this is wrong. Video is an add-in and not very well done with a DSLR body.

If you stepped back and built a camera for video from the beginning - you would have a camcorder.

EXAMPLE:

You choose a mirrorless camera as your 'dream' camera (Kudos to you for researching). Mirrorless is superior because the same sensors that do auto-focus when you slightly depress the shutter button continue to maintain auto-focus during video shooting. (Most DSLR's have to use fewer sensors while shooting).

But camcorders have auto-focus built in during shooting. They are silent and designed to handle moving objects gracefully. DSLR's - are all optimized for still photographs.

4K - uhh do you have a powerful i7 desktop PC with lots of hard drive space and the $700 Sony Vegas Pro video editing software?

While 4K sounds better - everything to handle those file sizes & density just jumped in price.

ADVICE

Stick with your budget Nikon and learn 3-point lighting, get a separate Zoom or Tascam digital audio recorder, and video editing software. All of this gear will swamp the price of your camera, but there are LOTS of techniques to learn that will probably improve your videos. The tripods, lights, etc., when you eventually upgrade to… A camcorder.