Oh, I know. I have a cheap (and by cheap I mean a Nikon D60) camera. It's not the cameras themselves that cost you so much but getting good glass to go with it ($1,800 for a Nikon 400mm lens), especially one with a decent F-stop range will bankrupt you. IIRC, at one point Pete had the Marvel version of a Canon EOS, but there's no way he could afford one with all the bells and whistles that he had at the time. Though, in his origin he had a hand-me-down type camera from Uncle Ben that, well it could never have done anything that he needed it to. OTOH, TV does this all the time, just look at any cop show that "enhances" a photo.