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Nov 12, 2013 06:23:26 #
DUKE103
Loc: Boston Area
good morning fellow UHH members
my grand daughter has expressed a interest in "taking pictures" so I have been allowing her to use my iphone (only when I am with her). In fact she has shown some good promise. what camera (probably a point and shoot at this time) would you all recommend ?
thank you
my grand daughter has expressed a interest in "taking pictures" so I have been allowing her to use my iphone (only when I am with her). In fact she has shown some good promise. what camera (probably a point and shoot at this time) would you all recommend ?
thank you
Nov 12, 2013 06:36:26 #
You don't say how old she is. For someone younger just interested in learning to take photographs for the joy of it, there are a lot of nice point-and-shoot cameras. Check some out at your nearest Best Buy, Target, Office Depot, or Wally Mart. When she gets a little older and perhaps decides to take a creative photography course, she can advance to a bridge camera like a Canon SX50.
Nov 12, 2013 06:42:06 #
DUKE103
Loc: Boston Area
you are right I forgot to add her age she is 8
I was thinking of the same i.e. what Costco was selling, best buy etc.
thanks for the input
I was thinking of the same i.e. what Costco was selling, best buy etc.
thanks for the input
Nov 12, 2013 06:53:19 #
DUKE103 wrote:
you are right I forgot to add her age she is 8
I was thinking of the same i.e. what Costco was selling, best buy etc.
thanks for the input
I was thinking of the same i.e. what Costco was selling, best buy etc.
thanks for the input
Right. Any name-brand camera will take good pictures. The important thing to learn is getting the shot - composition, steadiness, good lighting. A P&S is perfect for that. If she has the camera in the right position and holds it stead, she'll get good shots. She can get an adjustable camera later.
Nov 12, 2013 07:12:42 #
Any descent priced camera will do like Nikon Cannon Panosonic,sony and let her learn on one of them. Or u could get a old model of a SLR for about 200.00 and make sure u get the book on it.
Nov 12, 2013 08:29:23 #
DUKE103 wrote:
good morning fellow UHH members
my grand daughter has expressed a interest in "taking pictures" so I have been allowing her to use my iphone (only when I am with her). In fact she has shown some good promise. what camera (probably a point and shoot at this time) would you all recommend ?
thank you
my grand daughter has expressed a interest in "taking pictures" so I have been allowing her to use my iphone (only when I am with her). In fact she has shown some good promise. what camera (probably a point and shoot at this time) would you all recommend ?
thank you
I saw in a later message she's 8, so she may be getting too old for this, but for very young children, one place often overlooked is Toys'R'us - and other toy stores/departments. I believe it is Fisher Price that makes a "toy" camera, easy to use for even very young children, it actually has an SD card so the child can take real pictures. The viewfinder is split so both eyes are used.
One of our grandkids was given one when he was about 2 yrs old, and took pictures of everything. Very surprising, by the time he was 4, he still loved to take pictures and walk around with that camera hanging from his neck, but he had become much more picky about what he took pictures of. When he was 7 it was a natural progression to get him a point & shoot, one of the less expensive Kodak's at the time. He still uses it from time to time, but with school, after-school activities, weekend 4H and curling, he just doesn't have much time now.
OK, that's a longer story than I intended, but maybe an idea for YOUR grandbabies, with Christmas just around the corner ;-)
EstherP
Nov 12, 2013 08:39:58 #
EstherP wrote:
I saw in a later message she's 8, so she may be ge... (show quote)
Blimy your Toys R us must be better than the rubbish stores we have,
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Nov 12, 2013 09:05:34 #
Nov 12, 2013 09:32:09 #
When I first started digital my family gave me a ten dollar Wal-Mart special. It lasted about a year but it was all I needed to get hooked. That was about seven years ago and I still use the program that came with the ten dollar special.
Nov 12, 2013 10:42:05 #
Check on eBay. I have bought three point and shoots for under $10. They were used and under 6 megapixels. In the point and shoot section it has a menu for megapicels and you have to use the arrow that says more to get to the lower count. The ones I got were great. Don't uderestamate what an 8 yr old can do. If you get one without a instruction book you can find them on the net. - Dave
Nov 12, 2013 11:27:53 #
Nikon Coolpix s3300. Look at this one, seems good enough and cheap enough ($90) to be a good starter camera for 8 year old.
www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/best-compact-camera-2013-34-reviewed-963985/5#articleContent
www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/best-compact-camera-2013-34-reviewed-963985/5#articleContent
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Nov 12, 2013 15:49:45 #
JPL wrote:
Nikon Coolpix s3300. Look at this one, seems good enough and cheap enough ($90) to be a good starter camera for 8 year old.
www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/best-compact-camera-2013-34-reviewed-963985/5#articleContent
www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/best-compact-camera-2013-34-reviewed-963985/5#articleContent
I am getting old. $90 for a camera for an 8 years old? No way. Find something on the $25 range. There are many on WM. She is going to bang, dip and throw & drop that camera everywhere,
Nov 12, 2013 16:34:30 #
Bubu wrote:
I am getting old. $90 for a camera for an 8 years old? No way. Find something on the $25 range. There are many on WM. She is going to bang, dip and throw & drop that camera everywhere,
We bought our grandson a Kodak P & S when he was 7. That camera cost us $89. He has taken hundreds and hundreds of pictures with it and hasn't dropped it once!
Just last week, he turned 11 and that little camera is still working just fine.
Since then, he also got a Nintendo game player ($160) which he treats with equal respect, and an egg-incubator with 3 dozen fertile eggs. He hatched, sold the chicks, bought more fertile eggs, hatched them, sold the chicks, etc. Almost two years ago, he bought an iPod ($200) with his profits.
I guess what I want to say with that, is don't underestimate kids. They can be very responsible... (sometimes more so than some adult males I know, who have grown old but have never grown up!)
EstherP
Nov 12, 2013 20:28:15 #
Nov 12, 2013 20:53:03 #
^^^IF you buy her a cheap-o camera and she loses interest or damages it, then no harm, no foul.
If she IS interested in taking pictures on the other hand, and shows even the slightest talent, then if you like you can move her up to a better quality, brand name P&S while teaching her the fundamentals of god photography.
If she is STILL interested at 13 or 14, ten you can spring for a good used DSLR.
She'll REALLY love you for it....
If she IS interested in taking pictures on the other hand, and shows even the slightest talent, then if you like you can move her up to a better quality, brand name P&S while teaching her the fundamentals of god photography.
If she is STILL interested at 13 or 14, ten you can spring for a good used DSLR.
She'll REALLY love you for it....
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