[Leica] My son taking pictures when he was 4 years old with his first camera

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

You've done a better job than me!  My son is the same age, and when he 
was 4 or so, I also bought him the Owl.

His interest in photography has been pretty tepid in the intervening 
years.  He's had a Minolta Dimage, 2 Samsungs, and recently a LUMIX P&S 
with a Leica lens.

On the other hand, when I was his age I enjoyed looking at pictures in 
LIFE, but I loathed photographers, and didn't own a camera until I was 25.

-rei


On 10/08/2010 04:23 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> When my son, who is now 13 years old, was four years old, I got him his
> first real camera. He had been shooting with Fuji Quicksnap single use
> cameras for about a year before that and had gotten quite good. He used so
> many, it was getting too expensive! Regular 35mm film was much cheaper than
> the Quicksnaps, so I got him a Canon Sure Shot Owl for his fourth birthday.
> The photos in the link below were taken by me soon after he got the camera.
> We were taking pictures of each other, he with his Canon Owl, me with a
> Hasselblad.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mack-camera
>
> He shoots with a Nikon D70 now, which he uses to photograph scenes he 
> builds
> with Lego bricks. He's experimenting with making stop-motion animations 
> with
> the photos. There's a link to his stuff on youtube on the webpage linked
> above. His stuff is REALLY good for a kid his age, and he taught himself to
> do the animation stuff. I have no clue how to do that. I just taught him to
> use the manual camera and how to process the RAW files in Photoshop!
>
>
>