WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney Alexandra Gelber bought her first camera, a Minolta X-370, when she was a student at Cornell University in the early 1990s.

“Walking up the stairs to the art library one day near the end of my freshman year in college, I noticed a flyer on the wall advertising an old Minolta for sale, along with wide-angle and zoom lenses, a flash, and a camera bag. It seemed like a good deal, so I tore the flyer down and planned to call later that day,” Ms. Gelber explains.