'Real' Camera

[RML]

well nothing much,really.
Two east europeans with a japanese governmental student grant went from Japan to Nepal to hike the mountains, and ended up with no money to go home (or to sleep and eat in a decent way).
Sold quite everything to be able to get back to Japan

Dang. They could have made it a trip of a life time if they had kept the photo gear and walked back. A lost opportunity! They could have written a book about it and made a fortune from the movie rights. "7 years in Tibet" comes to mind....

 

[RayPA]

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... Since I wanted to expose (npi) them to photography early on,(somewhat selfishly), a few months ago I gave them a Fisher Price digicam."Oh WOW!!!, a REAL camera!!!!!!!!" They love it, and I can see the older one will be ready for a simple p/s digicam sooner than I thought. Have I created a monster?

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Bravo to you for exposing (npi) them to photography and making the connection between a *camera* and image-making. Some kids only know "photography" as something a cell phone does.

As far as making a distinction between film and digital for them, the best youcan do is shoot a roll of them playing around, take them out for ice cream and drop the film off at a one-hour lab on the way. While eating your ice cream with them "talk up" what the pictures will look like. After eating your ice cream take them to pick up the photos, and then sit down with them and look at the photos. Let them keep any photo they want.

 

[Berliner]

"We've found that the photos that are actually printed and displayed (framed) in our house are the film photos, not the digital photos. Give their parents a couple of candids framed and ready to display...."

Very funny--ALL the framed prints of my neice & nephew were made in a film Leica...I suspect the e-mail box box is as far as the other pictures get....