I just found something scarier than agreeing with Godfrey, having him
start a reply almost word for word with what I was about to write.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
It depends on the child.
When I was 12, my mom gave me her Argus C3 (my father bought her a new Kodak
Retina IIIc). When I was 13, my grandfather loaned me his Rolleiflex Automat.
That was at the start of High School. The following Summer, I took all the
money I'd saved over the course of the year and my uncle supplemented it to
help me buy a Nikon F. Later that same Summer, I'd saved up another $100 and
bought a pair of decrepit Leica II cameras at one of the big camera shops in
Manhattan.
When I was 12, I took a photography class in summer school, and my first
camera was an Argus C3. My bar mitzvah present three months later
was a Minolta SRT-101.
I did not find the SLR to be at all daunting. Granted
The first camera I remember using was my dad's spotty II
which he had taught me to use one afternoon right after he
bought it a few months previous to that.
Could you spend a couple hours with the girl, or girls, showing her,
or them, how to use your SLR, and showing them what they can do in
manual mode, and see how well they take to it?
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Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est)
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