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<blockquote data-quote="lokatz" data-source="post: 643586" data-attributes="member: 43924"><p>Hi there, Congrats on still enjoying DSLR photography. Agree your D3100 is a bit long in the tooth. The D5500 and D7200 both produce outstanding images and both will work with all your existing lenses, so no problem there. The choice mostly boils down to how much control you want to have over your images. </p><p></p><p>If you mostly care about convenience and taking good pics without having to fiddle much with camera settings, the D5500 or 5600 (only small differences between them exist) IMHO are better choices. If you want to get deeper into photography and experiment more, the D7200 will be more fun as it has a much richer feature set, higher shooting speed, slightly better AF, and so on. That comes at a price, though, in terms of cost, size, weight, all of which exceed the D5500's. Rest assured that both are capable cameras and great value for the money. You won't go wrong with either. Hope this helps.</p><p></p><p>On a side note, once your <em>next</em> birthday comes along and you're thinking about further upgrades, I would suggest to look at replacing your long lens. You mention favorite subjects that all often require long reach, and the 55-300 is not exactly a stellar performer at 300mm, so I think you may be happier with a 70-300 or something like that. Nikon's new AF-P 70-300 1:4.5-6.3 lens, for example, is a steal, especially given that it offers good 300mm performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lokatz, post: 643586, member: 43924"] Hi there, Congrats on still enjoying DSLR photography. Agree your D3100 is a bit long in the tooth. The D5500 and D7200 both produce outstanding images and both will work with all your existing lenses, so no problem there. The choice mostly boils down to how much control you want to have over your images. If you mostly care about convenience and taking good pics without having to fiddle much with camera settings, the D5500 or 5600 (only small differences between them exist) IMHO are better choices. If you want to get deeper into photography and experiment more, the D7200 will be more fun as it has a much richer feature set, higher shooting speed, slightly better AF, and so on. That comes at a price, though, in terms of cost, size, weight, all of which exceed the D5500's. Rest assured that both are capable cameras and great value for the money. You won't go wrong with either. Hope this helps. On a side note, once your [I]next[/I] birthday comes along and you're thinking about further upgrades, I would suggest to look at replacing your long lens. You mention favorite subjects that all often require long reach, and the 55-300 is not exactly a stellar performer at 300mm, so I think you may be happier with a 70-300 or something like that. Nikon's new AF-P 70-300 1:4.5-6.3 lens, for example, is a steal, especially given that it offers good 300mm performance. [/QUOTE]
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