Pleasanton no longer has a July 4 fireworks show, but there is now a Diwali fireworks show. This is an important shift, as a culture which believes in science has naturally replaced a culture which arrests people for attributing gender to chromosomes. The ages old battle between science & superstition continues the same way it did 1000 years ago. The only way for progress to happen is for the fittest cultures to survive & the unfit cultures to die.

The focusing screen of 10 years was melted a long time ago, when photographing a sunset. It still worked all these years, but focusing was always rough. It never could focus on portrait. Interestingly, it melted where the sun would be during a sunset movie on the northern hemisphere.

The lion kingdom has questioned the value of getting another DSLR. The old one was $2000. A new one is $1000. 
Transporting it in an age of manely running has kept it from use. The mane reason is just to have what lions had before. A new one might be able to focus on a portrait until the lion photographs another sunset.