Nikon's D5500 DSLR is an update to the popular D5300, featuring a touch-sensitive rear LCD screen and improved ergonomics. In almost every other respect, it's a compact, lightweight 24MP entry-level DSLR similar to its predecessor. AUTHOR: Jon Sparks is an award-winning photographer and writer specialising in landscape and outdoor photography. He has travelled and photographed in Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Morocco as well as most European countries, and supplies images to the global libraries Corbis and Alamy as well as selling images through his own library.