[Leica] Best Learning Camera

[Philippe]

My tip: get her a camera with flaws so that she will aspire to a better one once she had understood its limitations.
A better one with which she can for example, set aperture and adjust Dof as a result, 
or get to a higher top speed so that she can freeze movement, 
or one that doesn't scratch the film inside, 
and why not, even change the lens to get a different approach to her subjects,
etc.

Of course, this is tongue in cheek and fat fetched. But I do believe there's some truth in creating an urge for a teenager to progress - getting her the ultimate piece of gear might unfortunately result in a waste of bucks and talent if not of understanding what photography is all about.

Hope this helps

Amities
Philippe

Le 29 nov. 2016 à 17:44, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> a écrit :

> LUG:
> 
> My granddaughter is 15 and into all things artistic.  She is taking
> photography in high school and is very interested, following me around
> asking lots of good questions.
> 
> I'd like to get her a good camera for Christmas that she can use to learn.
> She's very interested in f stops and focal lengths and the differences they
> make.
> 
> One choice would be to give her one of my old M8's but the disadvantage to
> that is that she will not be able to afford extra lenses for it.  I have an
> old Elmar 65/3.5 that I would include but I don't have a lot of surplus
> lenses.
> 
> Is there another digital camera out there that would be good for learning
> apertures, speeds, focal lengths?  Most of them are so automatic you don't
> ever have to know what those are but she wants to know!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tina
> 
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