Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My 10-year old son will spend the first week of August at a day camp at the British School of Brussels, with the theme being photography. There will be darkroom instruction and of course photo taking. In the instructions we received it is stated that the children must bring manual cameras, or if they are autoexposure or autofucus, the child has to know how to use it in manual mode. My son is going with a user Leicaflex SL and 50mm Summicron--no worries about turning off the automation there... Nathan David Medley wrote: > I'm teaching a 3 day workshop next weekend. In my instructions to the > students, I have asked, among other things, that they know how to take their > camera off "automatic" before they come to class. > > If I had any choice in the matter, I would give each of them: > > 1 - manual camera > 1 - 50mm (or 35mm) lens of large aperture > 100 - rolls of side film. > > Wow...what a great 3 days that would be! > > Nikon, Canon, Pentax, et al are doing the craft and art of photography no > favors. > > Cheers, > David Medley > Whidbey Is. WA > USA > dmedley@whidbey.net - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/