[Leica] Best Learning Camera

[Nathan Wajsman]

I second Jayanand’s suggestion, and also John’s of getting her a 35mm Voigtlander lens for the M8 if you prefer to steer her the Leica way. I think the 65mm Elmar by itself would not be that useful, whereas a 35mm (or a 28mm) would work much better on the M8 as an all-around lens.

Cheers,
Nathan


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> On 29 Nov 2016, at 18:06, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would suggest a Fuji XE2, bought used, with a 35mm f2 (50mm equivalent)
> to start with. B&H are selling the Fuji lens new at US$299, a raging
> bargain if I ever saw one! This will make a lightweight, compact starter
> system, with excellent components, and all manual controls individually
> available, including excellent focus peaking to aid manual focus. You can
> buy her a Fuji made M adapter later for her to try your lenses.
> 
> https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/801263229-USE/fujifilm_16404791_x_e2_mirrorless_digital_camera.html
> 
> https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1191420-REG/fujifilm_xf_35mm_f_2_r.html
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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