Originally Posted by jacknyoc

I just bought the Nikon D5500. Impressed with small size & weight, features and image quality. I was looking for a more compact travel package. Photo quality is great. I don't use video per se and haven't tried it yet. My concern about getting into the other system mentioned was their steep cost for a package that may not be improvement on newer dslrs. Saying that, the technology and feature set on many of them are pretty astounding these days. Good luck.