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Subject: [Leica] WTB - Starter Camera for 12 yr old
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Thu Jan 6 11:21:26 2005

Ruben <ruben@rhodos.dk> wrote:

> Will I kid that loose interest in a 1000 USD drumset not loose interest in 
> a 
> manual non digital non autofocus camera before the first picture is taken 
> ???

Depends on the kid.  One of mine requires an auto-everything P&S digital 
otherwise she's not interested.  The other daughter wouldn't be caught dead 
with any kind of P&S and prefers manual everything.  Guess which daughter 
knows my website URL?

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wade Heninger" <heninger@adobe.com>
To: "Leica-Users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: [Leica] WTB - Starter Camera for 12 yr old


>A friend of mine has a kid just getting into photography.  They want to get
> an manual SLR camera with a 50 mm lens.
>
>
>
> I was thinking of a Pentax ME Super, MX, Spotmatic or K1000, or an
> equivalent camera from oly, canon or Nikon.
>
>
>
> If you've got one you'd like to part with let me know.  Their budget is
> around $100, but after he told me the tale of the $1000 drum set that is 
> no
> longer used, I understand why he is limiting his initial investment.
>
>
>
> :: w a d e  h e n i n g e r
>
> :: i n t e r a c t i o n  d e s i g n
>
> :: a d o b e  s y s t e m s ,  i n c .
>
>
>
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