My first camera. It’s a great camera for a beginner and delivers remarkable quality once you get to know how to use it properly. My only complain is that Nikon made it impossible to change the fstop when using live view preview. You can change shutter speed and iso so why can’t you change the aperture setting in live view mode? Nikon does let you do this in their professional series cameras like the d500 but one would assume that if Nikon is going to charge the amount of money it does for this camera, it should have the ability to change fstop in live view, the canon beginner series cameras can do that. So taking away 1 star. Other than that, this is one of my absolute favourite cameras.

My Sony A6000 with the 18-200mm lens was stolen, and I couldn't justify sticking with Sony after that. Basically Sony is just too expensive for what you. After the theft, I still had my HVLF 43mm flash, 35mm Sony prime lens, Sony hotshoe microphone and after selling all those things I was almost able to pay for this camera and an additional 35mm Nikon prime lens. A lot of this review will compare it to the Sony A6000 which I previously had. I am an amateur photographer who doesn't have much to play around with Manual settings. Bottom line is for $1000 total (including the 35mm prime lens), I got a camera that was at least equivalent to the Sony A6000.The flash of this is much better than the built in flash on the A6000 which was so weak that I needed to get the external flash. The Nikon D5500 flash is built in and is way better than the Sony A6000 flash, due to it's further range and better resulting picture quality. If you have a bright background and need to use the flash for a portrait picture, then this works great. This was not the case with Sony's teeny A6000 flash.LCD. It's a touch screen, and allows you to touch the screen and focus on an object. The A6000 didn't let me do this. The A6500 does, but at a cost of 2.5X times this. It also fully swivels and turns and can be turned to face inwards when you're not using this, which is a great feature. The Sony A6000 sometimes missed the focus point which for me taking pictures of my kids was/is important. With the A6000 and my kids on the move, I didn't have time to move the cursor to track someone's face, which it also lost. With the D5500, you can either touch the part of the scene/screen that you want the camera to track and focus, or you can set it to automatically take the picture when you touch the part of screen/scene that you want the camera to focus on and then take your finger off the screen.Manual control is definitely not as good as the A6000. You cannot manually the ISO, shutter speed and aperture at the same time.Automatic mode and SCNs result in better pictures than the modes on the A6000.Overall picture quality is good enough for me which is mostly family and kid pictures with the odd landscape.Size is definitely bigger than the A6000 but with the A6000, I was using the 18-200mm lens and once you put on a big lens than the size of the body doesn't matter as much.Viewfinder is optical instead of digital. The A6000 wins here. Digital viewfinder shows what your picture is going to look like. Optical viewfinider does not. I definitely miss this feature.Lastly, as other reviewers have said, the wireless features of the Nikon D5500 don't work that well, which wasn't important to me. They also didn't work well with the Sony A6000 unless you had that touch NFC thing on your mobile or tablet. This was not important to me, but I still think Nikon could/should sort this out.In short, if you plan to get an A6000 and just use the kit 16-50mm lens and the 55-210mm lens, and you don't really care about a touchscreen and a good flash, then I would suggest you go with the Sony A6000 over this. If you plan on buying other lenses and care about having a good flash, and a touchscreen then I would go with the Nikon D5500. For $1000 total, I got the Nikon D5500, the 18-140mm lens, the 35mm prime lens, plus extra batteries, charger, camera case, shoulder strap and wrist strap. For me, this was the best camera in this price range which had all the features I wanted except one (digital viewfinder).

Owsam product...I have purchased it afer watching its competitors ...1.Canon 70D....ofcourse 70d2.Sony alpha (i forget the exact name but the price segment was 60k of this)3. Nikon D3100The Nikon D5500 is all-rounder from 70d to d3100 it has all the great features which needed for professional photographers...thank u

Hoy recibi mi camara y estoy completamente satisfecho con el producto mas estoy teniendo un detalle con los metodos que manejan para hacer los cargos sobre la compra de los productos, la asesora me comenta que al momento de la compra envian una confirmacion al banco para confirmar si uno cuenta saldo para solventar la compra y ya en el momento de enviar el producto realizan el cargo por el monto del producto mas el banco lo toma la primer confirmacion como si fuera la compra del producto y retiene ese dinero y ya cuando envian el producto y hacen el cargo por el monto total del producto ahi si se refleja el gasto en mis cuentas inmediatamente, mientras tanto el monto por la confirmacion sigue retenido por el banco y no lo liberaran hasta que hagan corte de periodo. Esto sinceramente es un problema serio ya que uno tiene su cuentas y sus gastos y en estos momentos tengo retenidos mas de 10k pesos y tendre que esperar a que mi banco realize corte para que me los pueda liberar. lo cual puede tardar varios dias, La pagina y el servicio de amazon es de lo mejor solo que recomendaria mejoraran sus metodos de pago y evitar que sus clientes tengan este tipo de inconvenientes y al menos informar de este tipo de detalles a los clientes antes de adquirir el producto supongamos que quieres realizar la compra por un producto de 10k tendras que tener 20k para asi poder solventar la compra ya que cuando mi banco detecte la primer confirmacion me retendra el dinero y cuando lo envien y quieran realizar ahora si el cargo y no cuentas con 20k ya no tendre dinero disponible para solventarlo. Seria bueno realizar solamente 1 sola vez el cargo y de ese modo no nos afectarian como consumidores. Yo pensare dos veces el volver a comprar productos con precio alto ya que no quiero tener un incoveniente que me vuelvan a retener mi dinero y en caso dado tenga alguna emergencia y no pueda acceder a mi dinero.

Having used the camera for 6 months now, I think I have some idea about its capabilities.It's great for a first DSLR. Image quality is amazing, the shadows that can be recovered from dark scenes are amazing. Even blown out skies can be recovered to an extent. However for low light and indoor photography buy the Nikon 35mm 1.8g lens or some other wide prime. You would be disappointed otherwise.Autofocus is good but not stellar. Learning to use it is more important as it's not magical like the system on the new Nikon D500. Continuous speed is 5fps while shooting 12 bit raw quality. 14 bit raw will slow down the camera to about 4.5 fps. It feels slow. No other way to put it. For fast motion look elsewhere.Do not expect good results if you're shooting videos using auto-focus. Video auto-focus sucks big time on Nikon DSLRs. It is slow. The kit lens make an annoying sound while focusing which is picked up by the microphones. Canon is way better with their dual pixel autofocus. Video quality is good but then again it depends more on the lens and lighting.Having noted all this, I love this little guy. It's tiny and weighs next to nothing compared to other DSLRs. The camera body is well designed and just feels so natural. It has amazingly good picture quality. Having learned the menu by heart, I can change the settings to suit the situation quickly. The touch screen is quick and very helpful. And if I make a mistake, the ability to correct the raw files in Lightroom or other photo editing apps is amazing! Buy a light prime lens and it becomes a great street camera. There are compromises, sure. But for what it does, it's perfect.I'd like to close by saying that the cliche is true. It's really the photographer and not the camera. This camera is a really competent performer in AUTO mode. But flick that dial to M and watch the exposure meter in your viewfinder. Make decisions based on the result you want. Learn how to shoot. Then watch this little cracker blow you away.

Me encanto este modelo de camara, llevo poco que la compre por este medio y noto gran diferencia comparada con la D5000 que tenia, mayor nitidez, la pantalla tactil es increible, rapido y efectivo enfoque, realmente la recomiendo mucho como producto, en cuanto al la compra, todo salio excelente, un muy buen precio, llego mucho antes de lo esperado y en muy buenas condiciones caja en orden cerrada y sellada.... lo recomiendo ampliamente!

A superb camera. While I could go on and on about how good the new 24MP imager is; how light but strong the body is; how fast the camera handles big files; and the great overall quality of the images if you lens and technique are good -- it's the touch screen that really makes it stand apart. Once you realize virtually everything can be done via iPhone-like gestures on the big rear articulating LCD, it becomes the fastest DSLR camera I've ever used. This camera is also lighter than ANY DSLR I've ever used, and I've used many Nikon's and Canon's. Since it's largely made from a single piece of polycarbonate, it's exceptionally strong too. I've dropped it on the sidewalk, I know.Although it's still 24MP, Nikon says it's a new sensor, not a carry-over from the D5300. That said, 24MP can make mural-sized photos.This camera is more capable than most lens' ability to resolve. The kit lens (18mm-55mm) while decent, cannot do the imager justice. Try the f1.8 35mm DX, or any older Nikkor 50mm "normal" lens on a tripod. You will be amazed at the resolution. I tested the D5500 with a 50 yr-old f4 200mm Nikkor Q lens, and the results were spectacular. While this camera will only auto-focus with DX lenses, you can manually focus with confidence with almost any Nikon lens because a little dot appears in the viewfinder when you have focused accurately. Exposure can be gauged by looking at the LCD screen.Another strong suit with the D5500 is it's low-light capability. It is nothing short of amazing! Nite photography with fast lenses is easy, hand-held! It is so good, taking pictures of the Milky Way on a clear night is relatively easy. Photos taken at ISO's of 12,500 are ridiculously good. Sure, there's some noise, but it isn't too noticeable depending on the circumstances. Astronomers of the world unite, here is your camera!Make no mistake, the D5500 in capable hands, with solid technique and good lenses, can match ANY camera under $3000. Oh, and it weighs almost nothing and has a touch screen, did I mention that? :D