Not uncommon. Back in the chemical film era, most people never had more than a single digit number of pictures taken of them each year.
Cellphone cameras with decent image quality have only been available about a decade.
Digital cameras with decent image quality maybe 15 years.
Mostly true. But we are not talking about the chemical film era in its entirety, we are speaking of 2000-2001.
“Digital camera unit sales will exceed film cameras by 2002, growing from 6.7 million in 2000”.
And the Obamas were relatively wealthy even in 2000. both lawyers. It would be a surprise to me if they didn’t have one by 2001 when their youngest child was born.
But yes I’m speculating.
https://images.app.goo.gl/ER1B77y4C9XmWKZ7A