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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 843302" data-attributes="member: 50197">I'm with Needa, explore what you have now and get a good idea of what direction you want to go in, and what is lacking in your current equipment. Right now you have a good bit of overlap from a standpoint of focal length. I, myself, am not much into portrait, or landscape, but I do a lot of wildlife and macro. Unless you feel the pull of macro, I would leave that for now. A set of inexpensive extension tubes could get you started if that is a direction you want to go into. You can make do with the 55-300 for wildlife. 300mm will be the FF equivalent of 450mm, which is adequate for most wildlife work. Be careful investing in glass. Between the differences between crop frame, full frame, and mirrorless it's easy to invest in a bunch of glass that becomes obsolete for you, if you change camera body types. The D5300 is an older DSLR that should still give you years of service. Having said that, it's easy to get the itch for the newest, latest gear. The camera world has made the transition to mirrorless, and mirrorless lenses have a different mount, although you can adapt the F mount lenses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 843302, member: 50197"] I'm with Needa, explore what you have now and get a good idea of what direction you want to go in, and what is lacking in your current equipment. Right now you have a good bit of overlap from a standpoint of focal length. I, myself, am not much into portrait, or landscape, but I do a lot of wildlife and macro. Unless you feel the pull of macro, I would leave that for now. A set of inexpensive extension tubes could get you started if that is a direction you want to go into. You can make do with the 55-300 for wildlife. 300mm will be the FF equivalent of 450mm, which is adequate for most wildlife work. Be careful investing in glass. Between the differences between crop frame, full frame, and mirrorless it's easy to invest in a bunch of glass that becomes obsolete for you, if you change camera body types. The D5300 is an older DSLR that should still give you years of service. Having said that, it's easy to get the itch for the newest, latest gear. The camera world has made the transition to mirrorless, and mirrorless lenses have a different mount, although you can adapt the F mount lenses. [/QUOTE]

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