[Leica] Best Learning Camera Can we be your kid!

[Mark Kronquist]

I was forced to start on an Exakta VX once I mastered that a Minolta SR-T101
> On Nov 30, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> Pricey pricey, Lluis!! IMHO, that's crazy money to spend on a youngster who's only getting her first camera and might drop it when the rest of the photography class - and her teacher - all rush over to have a look at it all at the same time.
> How about a 35mm MC Rokkor and adaptor which can be picked up for peanuts?
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lluis Ripoll Photography" <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Learning Camera
> 
> 
>> Tina,
>> 
>> Here is a offer for a Summicron C 40mm, IMHO an excellent lens for a M8 at a reasonable price and I think better quality than a Voigtlander
>> 
>> <http://www.ebay.es/itm/LEICA-LEITZ-SUMMICRON-C-40mm-F-2-LENS-WETZLAR-GERMANY-W-HOOD-CAP-for-CL-CLE-/332026429946?hash=item4d4e5141fa:g:-uUAAOSwImRYIgVG <http://www.ebay.es/itm/LEICA-LEITZ-SUMMICRON-C-40mm-F-2-LENS-WETZLAR-GERMANY-W-HOOD-CAP-for-CL-CLE-/332026429946?hash=item4d4e5141fa:g:-uUAAOSwImRYIgVG>>
>> 
>> Lluis
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>> 
>>> El 29 nov 2016, a les 17:44, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> va escriure:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Tina Manley
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
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