Hi, Eric: My son started with a digital point & shoot. Once he was frustrated with its limitations, I began teaching him with my *istDS in manual mode. We'd go out and shoot the same things (both using the *istDS bodies), and then compare the captures. To this day, he prefers the *istDS body over any of the others I own (i.e., K10D, K20D, K-5, & K-3). Mama's little Pentaxian (6'2") says the other cameras are "too big", even without a battery grip.
I would have loved to have started him with my K1000, but there wasn't a convenient and cost effective solution for processing. I used smaller cards to teach him shot discipline. Cheers, Yonnie On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:30 AM, 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." > > - Amos Oz > > > -- > 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.
