Bicyle -- not expensive
"Mountain" bike -- expensive
Titanium frame mountain bike -- very expensive
Folding titanium frame mountain bike -- mega-bucks!
But why would anyone want one?

Answer: so they can say they own one. And what will they do with it?
Ride it around the block on Saturday afternoon.

You pay for quality. But you pay even more for small, light, portable,
convenient, exotic and sexy. None of that should be mistaken for good.
(After all, the consumer's idea of a great camera is a smart phone!)

World shipments of digital cameras have declined over 70% since 2011.
The camera industry has responded by:
* cutting costs
* keeping prices high
* maintaining incompatible lens mounts, so lens brands do not compete head on
* continuing to set prices, rather than letting them be determined by supply and demand.

The latest cost-cutting measure is mirrorless (MILCs) -- much cheaper to assemble
than DLSRs. Plus the EVF can do things that an optical viewfinder can't do:
like drain the battery and introduce a time lag. Gee whiz high-tech!

Even better, you get to replace all your Nikon or Canon DSLR lenses! What fun!
(And think of how that will help to support the high standard of living in Japan.)

The number of lens mounts has just doubled in a shrinking market--that's unsutainable.
Though they won't admit it, the plan is for F-mount and EF-mount to go away.
(which will ll put hundreds of thousands of excellent F and EF lenses on the
used market).

Just say "no". Buy a used film camera.

If you don't mind paying more for a used lens, a 4" x 5" sheet film camera loaded with B&W
film can have better resolution, dynamic range and depth-of-field than any camera made by
Nikon or Canon -- at a fraction of the price.

Even a medium format 120/220 roll film camera will perform as well as a digital camera
costing $6000 or more. Of course it's not as convenient--boo hoo.

Gee, why do Don McCullin and Bruce Barnbaum shoot film? Maybe because they
aren't rich and they want results like the following--
McCullin:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/0e/65/000e65f77b7ccf4272d1fdd3ce209e48.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/00/0e/65/000e65f77b7ccf4272d1fdd3ce209e48.jpg
Barnbaum:
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/barnbaumswiftcurrent.jpg
http://www.fourfriendsgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bruce-Barnbaum03-1.jpg
http://www.fourfriendsgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bruce-Barnbaum04-1.jpg

The decisions to heat your house with a nuclear reactor or to take photographs
with a computer turn out to be rather expensive and complicated. Moreover, it
makes you dependent on vendors and locks you into certain brands. To heck with that.

this is Calico the Ghost town in Yermo CA, since 1881 largest silver strike in Ca with its 500 mines Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12 year span, in the mid 1890's when silver lost its value the population packed up and left then became a ghost town, In 1950's Walter Knott purchased Calico and restored all but 5 of the buildings to look as if it was in the 1880's. Calico received State Historical Landmark 782 and in 2005 was proclaimed to be CA Silver Rush Ghost Town by then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, If you ever visit take lots of water or you can hit the saloons for beers it does get very hot