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I have a feeling misused or misleading terminology is getting in the way of a clear understanding of what I believe Nikon are trying to achieve.
What I think Nikon are aiming the D5600 camera at is people like myself, people who are dedicated posters to specialist forums and blogs, not twitter, whatever that is...
A specific example being a car body builder who posts regularly some of his extraordinary work repairing and re-creating old or specialised car bodies near Ipswich. Initially he used his phone camera, then a small digital camera, eventually, frustrated by the limitations, he grasped the nettle and obtained a basic DSLR possibly a D5100, can't remember right now. The quality of his photographs improved almost to that of his panel beating. He even took some lessons at his local college, where he taught welding at night classes.
This was the reason I got my D3100, to illustrate my car building activities in forums on which I participate. I don't want to expose my 'good' cameras and lenses to the harsh environment of welding, engineering and the rough and tumble of the workshop.
While this may be regarded as 'social media' by some, I doubt many Facebook users would bother with a D5600 and the range of lenses (and skills) needed to gain full advantage of that camera.
I dont regard specialised forums (such as this one) as social media. I am told social media is where people tell the world what they had for breakfast and gripping stuff like that.
As for quality, I process the NEF's in Lr and then take a selective screen shot (Shift + Command + 4) then post upload that to Flicker, from where I link the image to my post. That process is quick, painless and provides a way to circumvent the inevitable degradation inflicted by forum image software.
Surely a screenshot is low res c.72dpi? Is that really different/better than the forum software?
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Eric