I was in Walmart yesterday and while Joyce was wanting to shop in housewares I split off and went to electronics. I went down the aisle just browsing and saw their camera display. The digital cameras took up all of three feet just on one shelf, where they used to take up about 10-12 feet on three shelves. Now that Apple has such good cameras on the phones, nobody is buying a regular digital cameras anymore. I wish I had not gone by the camera display, because there on the tiny three foot shelf was a beautiful Sony 20 mega-pixel with a 30-X lens on it for a meager $169. This was the camera of my dreams years ago, but the price was always around $700. Thinking back, I remember when a little 2 mega-pixel camera was over $1000. Now that the camera of my dreams is at a price I can afford, I no longer live in the wide open spaces where I could use it for distance shots. Life is anything but fair, despite what my mother used to tell me. I am happy that people who travel can easily afford a nice camera, it just did not work out for me. My small pocket camera is all that I need, so I really cannot complain. And yet here I am doing just that.
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