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Subject: [Leica] Best Learning Camera
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:43:28 -0000
References: <D4636DBB.6816F%mark@rabinergroup.com>

I take it you've no children, Mark. I sometimes just had to lob raw meat in 
the corner where they were gathered :-)

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Best Learning Camera


I would bring her to the camera store and let her pick out her own camera.
It's all about her not us.

If someone picked out a camera for me I'd strangle them with my bare hands
with gratitude. Its really quite a presumptuous insult.
We need to stop treating kids like they're sub humans. Those days are past.


On 11/29/16 1:50 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:

> I thought the 65mm needed a Visoflex to work? Also only a portrait lens on 
> an
> M8... Don't forget the UV/IR filters if shooting in colour
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I second Jayanand?s suggestion, and also John?s of getting her a 35mm
> Voigtlander lens for the M8 if you prefer to steer her the Leica way. I 
> think
> the 65mm Elmar by itself would not be that useful, whereas a 35mm (or a 
> 28mm)
> would work much better on the M8 as an all-around lens.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
>
>> On 29 Nov 2016, at 18:06, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I would suggest a Fuji XE2, bought used, with a 35mm f2 (50mm
>> equivalent) to start with. B&H are selling the Fuji lens new at
>> US$299, a raging bargain if I ever saw one! This will make a
>> lightweight, compact starter system, with excellent components, and
>> all manual controls individually available, including excellent focus
>> peaking to aid manual focus. You can buy her a Fuji made M adapter later 
>> for
>> her to try your lenses.
>>
>> https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/801263229-USE/fujifilm_16404791
>> _x_e2_mirrorless_digital_camera.html
>>
>> https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1191420-REG/fujifilm_xf_35mm_f_
>> 2_r.html
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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