Best Buy stores vary considerably. Some have a good variety of Fujifilm, Sony, Lumix, Canon, Nikon, and others under one roof while other stores barely have a camera section. I think any inventory that not new is labeled as such unless you know differently. Some stores even schedule times when working professionals are in the store to help. I don't trust their computer staff from a handful of bad experiences, but the stores that have a decent photo sections can be worth a visit.

As in "Better to have forgiveness and not need it, than to need it and not have it." Having been raised among believers and especially very dedicated religious workers, I still considered the possibility that Christianity and other religions were refined social and psychological constructs designed to improve their respective societies, make money, get famous, or some combination of these. I made reasonable inquiries about the fallibility of different major religions, as time permitted, similar to what the agnostics Dr. and Mrs. Olsen did: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/456475.Daktar

After eventually coming by faith to Christianity and then having taken courses in the life sciences, Darwinian evolution made perfect sense to me. Even as a Christian, Moses' account of Creation seems to roughly reflect cosmology and evolution, from photons being considered as the very first elementary particle by some, if even for a billion billionth of a second, to eventually describing in big steps the evolution of species. This evolutionary explanation of life, however, lost credibility very early during my study of biochemistry. I was not aware of the term Irreducible Complexity at the time, but the concept jumped off the the pages of every text from Biochem 101 to graduate courses in molecular genetics. With all due respect the great Charles Darwin, he did not have the benefit of knowing biology's Central Dogma or anything about DNA. He saw only whole organisms and their outward similarities and differences and rather brilliantly theorized how they came to be. I still remain open minded and eagerly await an evolutionary model that solves the basic problem of the simultaneous evolution of dozens of complex systems and biochemical pathways where each system's development is mutually exclusive to the development of the others. You have to understand the principle of random mutation and natural se******n, and then accept that hundreds of such cycles must to occur sequentially long before any product thereof could provide a selective advantage to a member of a species. In other words, a long series of phenotypically silent mutations must be individually selected for in order to provide any environmentally selective advantage. Along the way, the dozens of other yet-to-function evolving systems would have been trashed within the first few of the necessary thousands of mutations needed to create even the simplest enzymatic pathway or necessary structure, hundreds of which are required for even the most simple prokaryote. I am sure the evolutionists will come to some explanation, but Dawkins and others don't come close in their desperate attempts to avoid the possibility that man is accountable to anything or anyone. And yet, all the science in the world that supports creation will not convince them, "...even if one is raised from the dead." as Abraham told the rich man. It does come down to faith, though science can certainly help those who objectively inquire.

I missed the comments about the anticipation of smaller and lighter lenses. I do recall the excitement about the shorter potential distance from the back of the lens and the sensor which is a major constraint in lens design. I don't mind a weighty lens to help reduce vibration, though lightness and compactness do help on some situations.

Many dangerous conditions remain asymptomatic until they are incurable or cause severe morbidity. A properly done wellness check cannot catch all of them, of course, but enough to make it worthwhile, especially if accompanied by a thorough history and physical (good luck with that.) About the apparently ironic requirement to avoid exercise prior to certain blood tests, one reason is to avoid masking a result that could indicate heart damage by the effects of exercise on skeletal muscle. Exercise causes short term damage with long term benefits when done consistently over time.

Medical care requiring a physician's orders is subject, in part, to the law of supply and demand. Wait times, whether for appointments or in the waiting room, and the cost of care are high because the supply held low. The difference between most commodities, products, and services is that medical care is over-regulated far beyond the need for quality control. It is a myth in the U.S. that only the top few percent of students are qualified to become doctors. There are simply not enough schools to meet the need. This is intentional, buttressed by myth about qualifications and the aura that surrounds the embroidered white coat and stethoscope. Like my earlier reference to the Wizard of Oz, the four had high praise and adulation due to royalty because he, and only he, held any hope for what they needed. I will never forget the reply from a doctor to my question about the cost of a particular procedure costing several thousand dollars that took little time, was done by a tech, and where the materials cost almost nothing. He said if I called around I would find everyone charges the same. He didn't answer the question, of course, but it said a lot about what is called racketeering in most other professions. The same is true for the cost of a medical education. This comes as no surprise since we have the best government money can buy. I apologize if this offends those on the provider side of the fence. I am only addressing one reason for the undeniable fact of excessive wait times and the cost of even the most basic care that requires a doctor's order.

I agree with you completely, to be fair, but my parrot's piddle about not having enough doctors was not just cynical. There are not nearly enough MD's and DO's to provide primary care. This is partly by intent to keep the supply low and contributes to the high demand, i.e. fees high. As a result, patients have been lulled to accept "Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody!" I joke again, but it is not funny that H&P's by fully trained doctors have all but become a thing of the past. I believe you allude to how practices are squeezed into limiting patient/doctor face time to a minimum in order to maximize pt turnover just to survive. So I agree if you mean the insurance and malpractice industries are making things ever more difficult for doctors to run their practices according to medical principles. I do not envy many physicians today due to parasitic entities that have infested what was once regarded universally as a truly noble profession. But sadly, the lines between profession and a monopolistic industry are very blurry. I also wholeheartedly agree that "We must help ourselves and our families so that we can improve the quality of care in this country!"

I suffer from a chronically low M.D. level. Since they quit doing physical exams and started using RN's and PA's to do their job, I decided to use UHH instead.

Funny anecdote: During an immunization lecture in a D.C. med school in the '80s, the MD professor was telling the class about the importance of vaccination compliance. During Q/A one of the class members asked the doctor about his own vaccinations. He did not hesitate to tell the class he decided to rely on herd immunity for himself and his family. It got quite a laugh.

Good to hear you recovered.

What I read from HHS indicates the latest polio vaccines are made from inactivated viruses, not genetic material. If true, many anti-vaxxers concerned about DNA and mRNA should have no objection to this one in case they missed their earlier polio shot.

Novavax produces true vaccines. DNA and mRNA injections were not vaccines until the term was redefined. So the term anti-vaxxer is inaccurate, pejorative, and based largely on ignorance of molecular biology. I have been and remain a staunch proponent of vaccines since the early 1960's while being opposed to injections of genetic materials for scientifically sound reasons. I suggest that you actually ask why some people refuse certain types of mandated injections before labeling them with a politically charged buzzword. It is not as simple a topic as it appears.

Amen to that. In college I rented a room from a couple still very active in their 90's. She smoked cigars. I occasionally joked that they were going to kill her one of these years. On her kitchen wall was a plaque with the words "I do not regret growing old--it's a privilege denied to many."

It's too hard to have a discussion when definitions change.

I hope the D7500 hangs around a bit because it can safely accept pre-Ai lenses in case there are still folks out there not using them for doorstops . The bad part is you have set the ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Even worse, you have to actually focus the camera. But, at least it works!

No kidding! You could even say they work most of the time and someone would reply "Not true with a dead battery."

ISO can be changed on the fly with the same wheel for shutter speed and aperture. Just assign the Fn button for that. It does mean using the menu for the other options, but there is usually less need to change the other settings than having quick access to ISO.