Hello,
a while ago, there was a kind of poll on the list about what inspired
you to get into photography.
I'd like to twist the question towards how you would inspire aspirant
photographers.
My kid is less than 1 year old, so it's not really an urgent question,
but I guess some of you have older kids and some of them may have become
interested in photography as well.
Very concretely: what kind of camera would you provide your kid for
first experience?
I (as most of you probably did) started with a completely manual
viewfinder camera (for me: AGFA Silette Vario) with variable focus,
aperture and exposure time. I just used the pictograms that were on the
inside of film boxes to set the apertue to 'sun', 'cloudy', 'shade' or
whatever... and that worked. Then an inherited Pentax Spotmatic F came
and added the lightmeter to that (only had a single lens for long!).
These days, I guess most kids would start either with a cheap
fixed-focus (disposable?) camera, or with a (digital?) point-and-shoot
after some 'upgrade' of the parents. Few would get a completely manual
camera and learn the meaning of focus and light conditions.
Would you be in favor of providing them manual equipment? What is the
risk of them getting discouraged because of bad results compared to any
point-and-shoot? At what age does it make sense to give them anything
manual; and what kind of equipment would you be thinking of?
Groeten,
Vic
- raising photographers Vic Mortelmans
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