I don't presume to know what makes the best modern camera for a child who loves to take photos, particularly a child now used to what is at least an advanced amateur camera with three professional-quality lenses. What alternative would be better? Teaching her how to focus manually when the AF doesn't succeed properly seems a more sensible approach. And buy something simpler if she's not ready to learn that.
I teach my students NOT to rely upon automation, NOT to rely upon the machine ... to rely upon their own understanding and knowledge of what ought to work well and then instruct the machine to do the right thing when its programming leads it in the wrong direction. I think it's actually better to hand a student a camera with little or poor automation so that they become creative and thoughtful about using it to obtain good results. The only risk is negative-return stress, and you can help overcome that with support and instruction. In my (ideal) world, I control the machines ... they do not tell me what I can do. ;-) On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Like I wrote to Tom on the other thread, Galia is complaining a bit about AF > of her K10D. I could, in principle, proceed towards spending our time > together whereas I'd be telling her about the way AF is supposed to be used, > etc. This can prove beneficial to her to some extent. > > The alternative is to get her a different set of gear which may or may not > be a good idea. Suppose for a moment it is a /good/ idea. > > What would you suggest? Please let us not limit this conversation to Pentax > only. Galia's kit is K10D, DA 21/3.2, FA 50/1.4 and FA 100/3.5 whereas she > always is asked to select a single lens before the shoot and she puts all > her three lenses is fair use. As an example of what I have in mind I'd > suggest this: Panasonic GF1 or GH2 or whatever, freshly announced 14/2.5 for > wide angle, 20/1.4 for normal and 45/2.8 macro for, well, macro. > > Ideally I'd like to keep this discussion on target. That is there is no need > whatsoever to compare brands here. I'd simply like to know how would you > approach this issue. > > Thanks. > > Boris > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
