My suggestion would be to take ALL of the advice and recommendations you get in here...and try to tune out any brand-specific recommendations or advice to avoid any particular brands...mostly pay attention to features and prices...then handle them if possible, and get an idea how they feel in your hands. Read reviews on ALL of them, stir up all that info in your head, then make the decision to go with whichever one felt best to you in your hands, the one you liked the design and style of, the one that had the most features you wanted with the least compromises, and the one that fit your budget.
In the end, you'll find most folks will recommend what they personally chose. Some have experiences which guided them that way, others may have no experience with other cameras. Some have biases for and against certain cameras. None of that matters to you: The most important fact is that no matter which brand you choose, they all make very good, very capable cameras today: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Panasonic, Olympus, Samsung just to point out the bigger players in the interchangeable lens market. You're not going to get a BAD camera from any of them. And the camera that will be best for you isn't the best-selling one, or the one that 5 other people like, or the one that has the biggest profits, or the one that is the same brand name you once used in 1977, or the one that also makes your TV...it's going to be the one that you love to hold, love the features, and are comfortable shooting with.
So, use all of the information and recommendations here as part of your research to help with your choice, and use the information to whittle the list down to the ones with the features you most want or need, but for the best possible results I recommend you then make that final decision from a handful of contenders once you've armed yourself with the information on features and prices and ergonomics.
