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Subject: [Leica] Best Learning Camera
From: john at mcmaster.fr (John McMaster)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:47:27 +0000
References: <CA+yJO1D81e4A7CORyGCoLL2DCa5TvaeAsx=QC4Tdb0gLeL5KRw@mail.gmail.com>

Get a Voightlander lens for the M8? Else an old film SLR....

john

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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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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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