Help buying first good camera

[goodguy]

Thanks you for the replies! This is definitely narrowing it down. Indoor photos are imporant, but so is portability. I'd hate to see my wife leaving the D3300 at home and just using her phone.

How significant of a difference will I see in indoor situations between the D3300 and A6000? I know the A6000 has lightning fast focus, and focus peaking; these seem like great advantages. Will the image quality in low light be that much different between the D3300 and A6000? Enough to justify the much larger size of the D3300?

I'll probably only ever get 1 or 2 extra lenses for either camera, so I'm not convinced that selection is important. In fact, the only lens I can think of wanting for now would be a "prime" for indoor low light, or a portrait prime.

As long as you mail focus both cameras performance is abuot eqthe AF in good lighting on the a6000 is indeed good but in lower light it will tend to hunt more then a DSLR.
If you plan on getting only 2 lenses then I guess the fact Nikon has many more lenses available isnt that important for you.
Its a toss, I still think the D3300 is the better camera and it definetly isnt a big or heavy camera but if you are afraid it will not get used because of size then maybe the a6000 is the right camera for you.
Go to camera store and look at both cameras one next to the other, if you find the D3300 is too big for you then you can always get the a6000

Good luck