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

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

I started with a point and shoot (Brownie Auto 27) at about 12.  I graduated
to an Argus C-3 a couple of years later.  So I don't think starting with an
"auto everything" camera hurt.  You can pick up the tech stuff later.

I think what really got me going was the darkroom kit I got with the
Brownie.  Of course today if you have a scanner and printer that might do
also.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Gess" <Harold.Gess@btinternet.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Camera for a 10 y.o.


> Hi
>
> This may already have been done to death but I think that if the child is
> keen to get into photography one would really be better off with a manual
> camera.
>
> My first camera was a kodak box camera when I was about 7 or 8. It was
> disappointing because the lens was pretty bad but it gave me the chance to
> develop my own films in the darkroom. My next camera, about a year later,
> was a Yashica twin lens together with a little sekonic lightmeter. I had
> such fun with that camera and by the age of 11 or 12 I was doing all my
own
> monochrome darkroom work and really fell in love with the darkroom
> experience.
>
> By that stage I already understood F stops and speeds, was pushing film
and
> trying out all sorts of things.
>
> Some kids thought my all-manual "ancient" camera was quite amusing until I
> won all the school photo competitions and then a couple of them went out
to
> find a similar camera for themselves!!!
>
> I really think that at this stage in the developmetn of photography a
manual
> 35 mm camera is the way to go. Good user Nikons are quite cheap, early
> Olympus OM series even cheaper and the quality of the second-hand optics
for
> both series is quite staggering considering how little they cost.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Harold
>
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