Thanks for the very direct and thorough help. I olan to make a second thread outlining what I've learned. Basically taking what you wrote on the website but just making that much more of an instant buy for the reader.
I confess that I cannot buy right away. I will have a very good birthday set up for my daughter in August, and when my wife is impressed with all my birthday planning and sees I spent roughly $4k on a camera, knowing I was never into photography, and I say-
"Don't worry honey. It's because we've learned from a starseed and his crew of psychic spies that this will save the world and transform the galaxy" . . . she will accept that maybe I earned it anyhow