Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was given a manual focus Cannonette for my 10th birthday. It was no problem at all to focus then. Jonathan Lee - -----Original Message----- From: ross mcleish [mailto:cram@bigpond.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 9:40 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Starting Them Early > > When is a child capable of handling manual focus? > > When I was a child, it was a case of "Mummy why does it look funny?"........"Well Dear, if you just turn this ring here, it will look okay." Children soon learn to focus when shown the very basic action required. Cannot remember how old I was.........7 or 8 maybe. Today children learn to use computers from an early age........manual focus won't be a big deal for them. Just keep it simple.......they're sure to ask the 'difficult questions' soon enough, when they get the hang of it and start to enjoy making images. Ross