At the same time I was learning photography I was also starting to read French literature...
> On 8 Mar 2018, at 15:57, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > > You crack me up, Bob! That's a great line ...! :-) > > When I was that age, I'd already bought my own first camera (a Minolta 16-P > which cost me the grand sum of $19 at Camera Craft in New Rochelle, NY), > having been given a couple of Kodak cameras before then. But I wanted > something more adjustable. My mother loaned me her Argus C3... with which I > learned a great deal about ruining film until I figured out how to work > aperture, shutter speed, and focus. AND remembered to wind on to the next > frame before re-cocking the shutter. > > There really isn't a modern equivalent. I'd never start a youngster on a 35mm > film camera nowadays, and any digital camera today has way more capabilities > and automation ... And the expectations of young people today are quite > different from my expectations of a camera in 1968. > > However, as a teacher of photography, my goal in getting people who are > interested started out is to let them begin with focus and understanding > light, and understanding the difference between what your eyes see and what > the camera might record. Nothing on the market today would start a young > person off with a better basic understanding of those things than an instant > film camera with manual focus, and it would also serve to give them the > immediate return on their effort that is so important to the learning > experience. Something like the Lomo Instant Square I obtained recently or a > Polaroid SX-70 with the Polaroid Original film would do a great job of > teaching these things, and would also be special, different, from the > smartphone experience in ways that would be beneficial to learning how to be > patient, how to be economical of exposures, and how to "look, think, and > consider" before shooting. > > G > — > No matter where you go, there you are. > > >> On Mar 8, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: >> >> Sounds like he needs an adult real-life lesson that will leave him feeling >> inadequate, unloved and in despair at the pointlessness of existence, so >> anything by Pentax will do. >> >> When I was about that age someone bought me an Instamatic, which quickly >> frustrated me, but one of my schoolfriends had an Olympus Pen-F (the >> half-frame one) and we could use the school darkroom, so I learned a bit >> with that. There is a digital version now - something like that would >> probably be good. >> >> B >> >>> On 8 Mar 2018, at 14:31, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> A sister has asked me for advice on a beginning camera for her grandson. >>> He’s 12, intelligent, creative, self-disciplined—all-in-all pretty >>> precocious about many things. I have my own thoughts, which may not be >>> best, but wondered what y’all might recommend. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
