If you want to be a contrarian, you can consider right now to be the golden age of DSLR. That is, for the gear heads and bargain hunters. The truth of the matt

If you want to be a contrarian, you can consider right now to be the golden age of DSLR. That is, for the gear heads and bargain hunters. The truth of the matter is that as it comes to image quality, a DSLR is in no way inferior to mirrorless, it's just that mirrorless has several features helping you to take the shot. There's quite a few types of photography where those features are close to irrelevant, not everybody does fast-moving sports photography. Given that baseline capabilities are still excellent, you can exploit this transition to get a lot of value (and fun) out of the legacy. If you now take a high-end DSLR, preferably on the cheap, you can make stunning photos with it for as long as it lasts, and nobody can tell that it is "obsolete". Modern DSLRs have incredible noise performance, a huge dynamic range, very high resolution. Specifically for Nikon, lens hunting is also fun. For example, I have a f/1.2 from 1979. It's a stunning lens, all metal, manual aperture, ridiculously fast. And it works just as well as it did back then. Unfortunately, it seems the market recognizes that high-end DSLRs are still excellent, second hand prices are not coming down, I've been monitoring this for years.