Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Your daughter demonstrates that a thoughtful photographic eye may be a genetic gift. My only suggestion would be to provide a camera that helps her really grasp the shutter speed/aperture/film speed triangle in a way unbiased by anything automatic. Automation can conceal so much of the photographic processes from a newcomer! Perhaps a bit like learning multiplication and division from a calculator! It's one thing to learn these things firsthand and then maked informed decisions about the use automatic exposure control in certain situations, but when kids begin with automated cameras, the light control fundamentals seem to escape them. M4 might be a great way to start. Non-automatic, mechanical for sure, whether the meter is on board or hand-held. My nephew is getting his arms around the light with an old Fuji 801, whose silicon blue cell meter, with LED readout is dead on, and rubberized cloth shutter reasonably accurate, 25 years after I carried it. He shows real promise, and is learning how shutter speed/aperture/film speed work together, or against each other, in the wrong combinations. Hope all the Manleys are enjoying the light. Greg