Which camera did you buy for your wife / husband / girlfriend / boyfriend etc.

[Lucadomi]

I bought a Nikon FE with a 50mm 1.4 lens for wife over a year ago. She is using the lens on her Nikon D7000 and getting used to manual focus. She still did not use the camera but I did non give up hope yet.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

DSLR for daughter, she sold it to buy and eat junk food

 

[kxl]

When she was my girlfriend, I offered to buy her an M6, but she said no. Now that she's my wife, she lays claim to half of all my gear. 🙁

 

[Dwig]

Several years ago, I picked a "life proof" compact ( Panasonic Lumix TS20 ) for my wife. She wanted something that would survive better than her then recent cell phones. It complements her waterproof ruggedized cell phone. She uses it primarily to document things she sees on her daily walks around town.

The camera has been an excellent fit for her use, better than the various hand-me-down cameras of mine (Nikon CP950, Nikon CP 8400) that she had been using and she no longer want to shoot film in her Canon TX or AE-1. i get sharper 13x19s, particularily at the edges, from my 12mp Pany G-1 than her 16mp TS20, but the difference in the center is small and she rarely wants even an 8x10 print. Most images are either 4x6 or web.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Bought a digital camera for my son. He used it three years. He dropped it and it broke. Computer crashed and he lost all his photos. Bought a film camera for my wife...Canon AE-1, used maybe four rolls of film.

 

[gb hill]

My wife doesn't care too much about taking photo's but I did buy her a Samsung, for some reason she likes Samsung, P&S camera after her Canon P&S got stolen. She hardly ever uses it. Now she has an iphone but she rarely uses that either.

 

[robbeiflex]

I bought my wife a Canon Digital IXUS in pink about 6 or 7 years ago. It worked out extremely well with many great photos from it over the years, and much better video (especially the sound) than iPhone up to 5. Now we only use it a couple of times per year but it's still fully functional and it's really easy to use. We hand it over to the creche (kindergarten, daycare) or school teachers just to take a few snaps here and there, and the results are always impressive. It's worth much more to us than what one sells for now, but if we would lose or break it then I doubt we would replace it.

 

[Nokton48]

I bought my Wife a Canon 50D, and since then, she has added four Canon EF lenses.
I am good with going out and we both have fun with this stuff together.
She shoots digital, and I shoot film.

 

[nikon_sam]

When we were first married I bought my wife a Pentax P3 with the 50mm 1.7 lens, a Vivitar flash dedicated for the Pentax and a nice little camera bag...I have all these in one of my closets...I could sell it all in Like New condition...I'd be surprised if more than ten rolls went through that camera...
Later in life I bought our daughter a Pentax MX with the 50mm 1.7...she used it a few times...right now it sits on a shelf in her room...
I don't think I've ever received a camera or lens as a gift....

 

[Mudman]

Haven't bought my fiancee anything yet, she's not very interested in photography. I got my dad a p&s (twice) and he loves it. Bought my mom a Sony A700 and had a few minolta lenses. She uses it on auto, but she loves it too. Recently got my cousin's daughter a higher end P&S so she can continue learning photography. My aunt has told me the camera is rarely out of her hands for the last month. Mission accomplished on all accounts.

 

[mdarnton]

When we got married in 1970 I had already been a photographer and given it up, but my wife wanted a camera so we found her a Leica M3. Then that got me back into it, so we got another for me. Fast forward 10 years, and she was taking an educational trip to Mexico, not wanting to take anything fancy, so I got her an Olympus XA and she shot 20 rolls or so on that trip, and really liked that camera a lot because it was so light and small, using it consistently after she got back. These days, though, she's happy with her cell phone's camera, which will do more than either of those would!

 

[Doug]

My wife was using a Nikon Coolpix S-10, and before that the E990... both of these are the swiveling body compact type. I got her a Panasonic Lumix G2 with the kit zoom as a superior replacement. But now she carries *both* the S-10 and G2 everywhere and uses them happily, each for their individual strengths.

In 1983 I got my parents a Nikon FG and fitted a Tamron 35-80mm zoom to it. I don't think they used it much... 22 years later I took it to my local repair guy for CLA and he found rust and corrosion throughout. Both camera and lens were trash due to proximity to salt water. But their Olympus Pen FT gear was 20 years older than the Nikon and survived the same environment very well, for twice as long!

 

[ruby.monkey]

I haven't bothered. My wife already has "I want my picture taken here" - she doesn't need anything other than her cellphone for everything else.

One day I might just get her out on the railway tracks...

 

[Sid836]

I have bought a magnificent Rolleiflex 2.8F (Type1) Planar for my wife on her birthday. It had been a hell of a surprise for her, she really liked it. A few months later she started asking persistently for my digital Fuji X100t. A while later she had asked me if I was interested in swapping the little X100t for the Rolleiflex 2.8 and of course I just couldn't say no 😉

 

[Puggie]

Fuji X10 for the wife. something 'handbaggable' that takes decent pics easily. it has the typical 'walkabout zoom' 28-105mm an in extended dynamic range mode make a pretty good job of anything. Much easier than lugging my Canon 5D about so got quite a bit of use.

 

[Tompas]

Pentax APS-C DSLR with a 35mm lens for my wife, so she can use my lenses, too.

Although she's an engineer she always uses it in auto-everything-mode. Some of her images are very good.

 

[harpofreely]

Bought an olympus xz-1 for my son for his 6th birthday this summer, but other than making goofy songs into movie mode, he prefers his old olympus stylus.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Before we were married (1991) I bought my wife a Pentax K1000 to replace one
she said she had used in college but was later lost, stolen, sold or given away (?).

A few years ago when she began using reading glasses setting aperture and shutter speed became cumbersome.
So I gave her my Pentax MX which has a full-information viewfinder. She still uses it about once a week.

She has tried several digital cameras I rejected but like me always returns to film.
At least we have that in common... 😉

I gave our daughter a Pentax K-x DSLR which she has rarely used, and a Pentax KM film SLR which she has never used.
Like most young people seems she prefers to use the camera in her phone, tablet or iPod... 🙁

Chris

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Got my wife a Canon ELPH SD1000 off of shop Goodwill. I didn't care for the way she treated my camera (same kind) so got her one of her own. She uses it to photograph her quilts during the construction phase in case something falls off the wall. It's worked out well even though she complained about getting it (why do we need another camera, you already have more than you can use?).
😱 At least I'm not worried she'll mistreat my version of it as I have sentimental feelings attached to it, dumb as that sounds.

 

[Darthfeeble]

I voted mirrorless because she has two OMDs. She bought them herself though, she makes more than I do. I did get her a couple lenses for them.