Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]lea wrote: > I'd get him an Olympus Stylus, 25 rolls of film with developing and some photo > albums. That will encourage him to shoot. As the prints come back from the lab, > sit down with him, put the pics in albums and talk about what worked and what > didn't. > > He'll learn far more this way than handing him a camera with buttons and dials > that make no sense. > It all takes time. Don't rush it. For a kid, the joy is in the pictures, not the > tools. > Lea > Lea, I agree moslty. There are some kids for whom the process is as important as the results (my younger daughter, for example). But I definitely would not sacrifice results for the sake of the process. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com