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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

No, none in or near The Villages. Closest good store is Colonial Camera in Orlando.

The best way to get some good advice is to attend a meeting or two of The Villages Photography Club. Second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, noon, at Rohan Rec Center. Just ask at the check-in desk at the back of the room and I’m quite sure you’ll be directed to an experienced member who will be glad to help you.

Be sure to have a pretty good idea of your budget, your computer literacy, and the types of pictures you want to take. There are dozens of good cameras at every price point, all available at the big box stores or Amazon. You may already own the most popular camera in the world—your cell phone. The more recent cell phones, either iPhones or Android, have terrific built-in cameras, every bit as capable and full-featured as almost all the entry-level cameras you might consider.

You said you have an iPhone 13. It has a great built-in camera, better than most you might pay $200 for. Call Apple Support and they’ll help you out with getting your phone and computer to communicate. They won’t be of help if you don’t have an Apple computer though. But if yours is of an age that it needs to be replaced, I’d suggest that you upgrade to a new MacBook with their new M1 chip. They are quite attractively priced right now (Black Friday coming up) and will pair and synch with your new phone beautifully.

If you’re ready to upgrade your computer, Best Buy is a perfectly good place to both get advice and buy.

Thank you. When I received my 13 the first thing I tried was to transfer some photos and it did not work. I called Apple support and spent 2 hours on the phone with them trying various things that they kept suggesting, at the end they asked for the operating system and it's a OSX 10.9.5, they looked it up and said that the phone is not compatible with it and they can no longer download updates to the computer, that's right from the horses mouth. I work right across the street from a long time computer store and he can upgrade it for under $200.00 but needs the computer for one week explaining that he cannot spend one entire day on it so he breaks it down into a little a day. As of today I contacted 4 companies and they are all out as far as 4 weeks. Since my desktop has no other problems I'm not going to replace it, I'll get in touch with one of the camera stores mentioned here and order whatever they feel will work best for me. Thanks for all of the advice.