The first photography course I took, the students had a truly motley
collection of equipment, back then anything beyond a 126 or 110
Instamatic, that was affordable was pretty much a manual camera, there
were of course some automatic exposure cameras but they were actually
much more expensive than pure mechanical cameras. By the end of the
course everyone had an SLR, except for the guy that started out with a
Nikon RF
The fact that most of your students actually have their own DSLRs is I
would think be heartening. At least they've got basic equipment that
can be used to teach them something.
The fact that they don't even know what Mirrorless systems are makes me
think that the Mirrorless revolution is a bit over hyped.
The fact that none of them have a Pentax makes me a little sad.
As an aside I visited my local, (well 25 miles away from where I sit
typing this), camera store last week, and they expressed two things to
me, (one), they really want to carry Pentax but, (two), Pentax doesn't
seem to have any real sales presence east of the Mississippi in the
U.S., except for places like Adorama, and B&H.
Wanting to carry Pentax is a big change for them from a couple of years ago.
On 9/27/2016 6:14 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
A brief survey of the students in my "Digital Photography II" class,
from an equipment standpoint:
There are a dozen students in this class.
2 started out with point & shoot cameras (but are getting DSLRs for
the course)
10 came into the course already owning DSLRs
All Canon or Nikon
All APS-C format DSLRs
No mirrorless
No Four-Thirds cameras
None of the students has even heard of mirrorless cameras
2 students knew about raw files (one of whom shoots raw already)
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