Re: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o.

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

Age is not the relevant factor here; personality is the key factor.  Some people
are equipment geeks and are more interested in the photo equipment than in the
photos taken.  Others are "artists" who are more interested in the final result
than in the means used to obtain it.  You need to determine which of these
categories best matches your ten-year-old, and then choose on that basis.
Equipment geeks get all the buttons and dials so that they can tweak things and
maybe even occasionally take a technically-perfect picture.  Artists get an
"auto-everything" camera that just puts whatever they aim at on film with a
moderate degree of reliability.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Cardish" <dcardish@sympatico.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 22:02
Subject: Re: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o.


> Keep in mind we are talking about a 10 year old, not a teenager.  There's a
> difference.
>
> dan c.
>
> At 12:30 PM 05-08-01 -0300, you wrote:
> >on 5/8/01 10:54 AM, lea at lea@whinydogpress.com wrote:
> >
> >> OH yes, smart and all that...I had my daughter in her high chair in the
> >> darkroom
> >> with me when she was only 9 months old...she loved seeing the light go
> on and
> >> off.
> >>
> >> And I'm not saying kids aren't savvy but who amongst us would hand their
> kid a
> >> Porsche without teaching them to drive first?
> >>
> >> There is a proper order to all things.
> >> Lea
> >
> >
> >Sure, Lea...but "proper order"  would not mean that every kid would be
> >needing the same thing at the same time...so you should decide it in
> >accordance with a specific kid. It's very hard to state that kids need to
> >start with this or that camera ...
> >
> >Some kids appreciate doing it all by themselves, setting speeds, apertures,
> >advancing film, focusing, rewinding film and so on...some other hate that.
> >I'd say that making the kids play with tools would increase loving tools, so
> >caring those tools and appreciate the whole labor around the photo gear.
> >All this stuff will lead kids to feel like a commitment...with the general
> >photo stuff... IMO.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >Pablo
> >
> >