Nikons are VERY good cameras with awesome lenses. The comment about the onscreen thing is that a digital SLR might show the picture but what you'll download and see in the finished product will be bigger... or was it smaller? I do know that what you see through the screen and viewfinder is different than the actual photo taken.

I wanted to get another Nikon after mine was stolen but switched to Canon because they had the one feature I can't live without (a swivel viewscreen) and Nikon no longer offers it on their cameras.