I think a lot of us started with the Argus C-3. I wrote this about it in 2010 <http://georgesinos.com/blog/first-camera>
It would be hard to imagine a more basic design. gs George Sinos -------------------- www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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. -- 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.
