Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Can we step back from the pedagogy for a minute and contemplate the wisdom of giving a 4 1/2 year old a $200 camera? In theory, Ted and BD make a lot of sense, although my heart is with Karen. He will have full access to the digital world soon enough. But reality imposes itself here, and they do not make $4 disposable digital cameras. He is going to have to shoot a lot of rolls to make up for the one Olympus he breaks or loses! And is one hour at Target really that long to wait to see your pictures? Max ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Nakamura" <mail@gpsy.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] First digital camera for my son? > > I have to disagree on the suggestions for a digital camera for kids. > > I've noticed that kids these days have an attention span of approximately > 0.3 seconds. > > This has gone down from the peak of 0.5 seconds achieved one winter in > 1973. > > But I've noticed kids with a digital camera will happily shoot snaps, look > at the screen, then 0.4 seconds later they've forgotten entirely about the > photo, camera, and everything else. > > At least with film, you force a delayed gratification which is good. Part > of the magic. > > Karen > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information