G'day Snoopy

Welcome to the Forum

I know the S-5500 quite well ... as part of the S-5000 > S-5600 series of cameras
It has a very nice 10x zoom lens, the 35mm film camera equiv of 35-350mm, (and for the dSLR Forum readers, a 28-280mm equiv lens)

The camera itself is one of the lightest cameras on the market, coming in at about 475grams and its menuing system is nice & easy to follow (as it does not have '000s of options)

For anyone on the Forum to better answer your starter Q we would need to know more about you, the sort of pix you like to take and what sort of pix you cannot take with the Fuji where you want another camera to do it for you

BTW - an interchangeable-lens camera with its "basic" 3x zoom lens (your Fuji equiv of 35-105mm) will weigh in at about double the Fuji and cost you around $900+

Hope this helps a bit, Phil.