LOL! good to see(you finally came back to your senses and) got back into Fx as well.
As for me, well you know my back story .. from APS-C to Fx(all still there with the gear list still being cultivated, fed and encouraged to grow!) .. and back to APS-C again.
of course my new APS-C kit is mainly for the kids(which ever one wants it at the time), but while they're away, it's still mine to use.
Of course the D5500 has the same sensor as the D7200, and mighty impressive one at that too, now that I can take my own sample images to see the level of quality it can produce.
<insert a string of expletives here> annoying to use tho, mainly with any lens bigger than an 18-55 kit lens. 50/1.2 feels nicer on it, as with the 24/2, but bigger than those lens sizes and it is <expletively> annoying to have in your hand with even the 18-140VR lens.
Actually it's annoying to have in hand just the body on it's own! .. way to small for me to handhold.
Feels like trying to hold a box of matches steady as a rock, with a 20lb sledge hanging off in front of it.
Luckily tho, lil miss 15yo has small hands, and she's outgrown the P&S Galaxy Camera she got a few years back.
It does take some nice images tho, where the D300 struggled majorly to give decent quality. But on the flip side, the D300 handled like a camera should, where you grab it by the scruff and command it to sit steady with any lens larger than a tiny 24/2 attached.
The D5500 by comparison feels like fumbling a grenade between the remaining working fingers on a hand already blown to pieces with the grenade before it!
Funny perspective on the D300 here tho .. up till I started playing with the D5500 and seeing the impressive IQ at elevated ISO values, I never gave the D300 any thought as to ISO set.
That is I'd set Auto ISO to 3200 without ever thinking that noise would be an issue, so I did the same with the D5500 and shot some frames indoors(all test shots not worth posting) and at low shutter speeds with the kit lenses.
D300 now bugs me to distraction where the D5500 just looks nice at the same ISO values.
And all this lunacy talk of small compactness and lightness .. just makes no sense to me.
D70s is a couple of orders of magnitude larger, and so easier to hold onto, it weighs a lot more at about 200g more(680 vs 470) but I'm completely buggered if I can feel the difference when holding either camera in my hand.