I was at Sam's today and they had some fair priced kits on the Nikon D3500 and D5600. I think they were doing $600 on a D5600 kit with an 18-55 and either 55-200 or 55-300-I didn't look enough to see which but for the price I'd guess the 55-200. I think that every Nikon crop sensor shooter should also own the wonderful little $200 35mm f/1.8, but that doesn't necessarily need to be bought at the same time.
I'll be perfectly honest and say that-as a long time Nikon user-I'm not a fan of the D3500. Somewhere along the way in the D3xxx series(I think the D3400) Nikon deleted a small switch on the lens mount that disables metering with a whole lot of perfectly good lenses(those with aperture rings). To be honest, it's probably not a big deal to the target buyer of this camera, especially given that most of the lenses that lost metering already wouldn't autofocus on that series bodies. With that said, the D5x00 bodies do get you a swiveling LCD screen-that's not something I necessarily personally use but at the same time I've been in more than one situation where I would have found it useful.
I do dislike the lack of a top LCD and also the single control wheel on the D3000 and D5000 series bodies, but will also freely admit that's probably not a deal killer for everyone. If I were in the market for a new crop sensor camera, I'd buy a D7200, which is a generation old but in some ways I think it's a better camera than the D7500(I like that it has an AI follower tab) and at least a couple of months back there were some great deals on it.
I'll be perfectly honest and say that-as a long time Nikon user-I'm not a fan of the D3500. Somewhere along the way in the D3xxx series(I think the D3400) Nikon deleted a small switch on the lens mount that disables metering with a whole lot of perfectly good lenses(those with aperture rings). To be honest, it's probably not a big deal to the target buyer of this camera, especially given that most of the lenses that lost metering already wouldn't autofocus on that series bodies. With that said, the D5x00 bodies do get you a swiveling LCD screen-that's not something I necessarily personally use but at the same time I've been in more than one situation where I would have found it useful.
I do dislike the lack of a top LCD and also the single control wheel on the D3000 and D5000 series bodies, but will also freely admit that's probably not a deal killer for everyone. If I were in the market for a new crop sensor camera, I'd buy a D7200, which is a generation old but in some ways I think it's a better camera than the D7500(I like that it has an AI follower tab) and at least a couple of months back there were some great deals on it.