Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, If I may add some personal perspective to that, but of course it's irrelevant because I grew up during the stone age. 1950s, I think it was called. I had been taking photos with old cameras for many years, and then my confirmation came around, I must have been 13. My aunt, a woman I generally respected and very much liked, gave me a camera. It looked like a real camera, but once I checked out the specs and the format, I realized it was just a modified box. Seemed almost more primitive than the ancient bellows cameras that I had been fooling around with. And the optics were certainly no better, might have been worse. Three years later, after my first few paychecks, I bought myself a Leica, a Ig. That's all I could afford then.<g> Gerhard - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of JR Geoffrion Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 3:56 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o. >My nephew recently celebrated his tenth birthday and seemed interested in >taking pictures using my R8. Does anyone have a suggestion regarding a >camera that might be a good 1st camera for him? Are there any good >introductory books for a person that age? Despite what others have recommended, I would STRONGLY recommend and old manual focus mechanical camera (like a Minolta SRT-101 or SRT-202, or a Nikon FM or FM2). Although not as immediately gratifying as a digital camera, it will help your nephew understand the principles and possibilities offered by the various combination of settings such as focus, aperture, shutter speed, focal length. In addition, you probably can get these camera relatively cheap and they are robust (remember, he's only 10). Just my $0.02. Warm regards, Jean-René (JR) Geoffrion, PEng, CMC, MBA Chicago, IL