IIRC, around 14 was when I too wanted and got a "serious" camera. It was a Japanese rangefinder, match-needle metering, 2.8 40mm lens. Started with a "T", but I can't remember the manufacturer anymore. Took me a couple of years before I "graduated" to an SLR (until I got my first part time job, and bought it myself).
And, the ME Super is a great first camera, too!!
Glad to hear your son is enjoying it already. Look forward to seeing him on PUG!! <vbg>
Happy New Years, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Peter Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Another Convert ( was Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:35:43 -0000
Tanya,
I suspect you had a hectic Christmas with your youngsters at the ages they are. I remember when ours were that age, they got so excited just before Christmas I thought they were going to explode!
My mob are a bit older and my 14 year old asked for a "proper" camera for Christmas. The look of joy on his face when he opened his ME-Super on Christmas morning was a delight and I found it interesting at Christmas lunch to see my role as candid snapper usurped by him.
His enthusiasm was such that we ran out of print film on boxing day and I had to order another 20 rolls on Monday!
He has snaffled a flash gun already and it is only a matter of time before some of my other lenses walk to his room.
However his enthusiasm had limits. It is cold and crisp here at the moment, but I couldn't persuade him to leave his bed at 7 this morning to go and catch the pre dawn light at a loch a few miles up the road. I shivered in the minus 8 cold while he snored away.
If we start seeing messages on the list wrtn as txt, then you'll know he's arrived here as well.
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