The D5600 is the company's mid-range DSLR and it's the smallest and all-time-continued, yet.

Nikon has been on something of a scroll, making solid DSLRs with good ergonomics, undecayed metering, some of the best paradigm sensors, oftentimes very good (frequently industry-leading) autofocus and a JPEG engine that gives results that lots of people like.

However, falling camera sales and rivalry both from smaller mirrorless models and the convenient, perpetually available smartphone ways that producing a really skillful little DSLR isn't quite enough. The D5600 aims to address this by making it as painless every bit possible to get the images from the camera to your phone, meaning that you become the huge benefit of a large sensor photographic camera but with as small an energy barrier as possible.

Equally such, the add-on of SnapBridge is virtually the just change between this and the older D5500. It may sound like a minor change only, to us, we experience it's likely to be the making or the downfall of this model and perhaps it makes more than sense than adding an array of clever only bewildering additional features and modes, as many rival makers seem to exercise.

Key Features:

  • 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor
  • 39 signal AF sensor with ix cardinal cross-type points
  • 2,016-pixel RGB sensor assists AF tracking and metering
  • Up to five fps continuous shooting
  • 'SnapBridge' Bluetooth/Wi-Fi communication
  • 1080/60p video capability
  • Fourth dimension-lapse movie feature

SnapBridge

At its heart, SnapBridge is primarily a Bluetooth-based organization which uses a depression-free energy connectedness to stay connected to your smart device (and sidestep the hurdles that mobile OSs might otherwise place in your way) and to transfer images. Although the photographic camera is Wi-Fi capable, that capability is used solely for remote live view functioning and video transfer.

We weren't very impressed the first time nosotros encountered SnapBridge: information technology seemed unfinished and non very well suited to the D500 where it first appeared. The loftier likelihood of the lensman wanting full resolution files and the camera'south propensity for generating lots of images fabricated it a poor fit for that camera. However, on the mass-market D3400 information technology seemed much more likeable: you take the photos and 2MP versions announced on your telephone shortly afterwards.

The needs of the D5600's users are probable to lie somewhere between these two extremes, and so nosotros'll meet how well it does.

Review based on a camera running firmware v1.0. All SnapBridge commentary amended to reflect the behavior of firmware v1.1 and both iOS and Android app version V1.xx