C'mon. When you're not a "pro", there's this thing called the "family
album". You don't "need" it, but you want to have it. You can't suspect
the millions of buyers of disposable cameras to have bought "shiny toys
to play with". Those cardboard boxes were just tools used to get to the
purpose - memories added to the album.
William Robb wrote:
A house, like a car, is kind of a necessity, at least in our society.
A camera is not, unless you are a pro photographer.
I love my camera gear as much as anyone, perhaps more, but I make no
effort to pretend that I don't just like to collect shiny toys to
play with.