Emily,
I dunno, Andy. There might be some commentary on http://www.dpreview.com site.
Thanks. Seen that and others plus magazines, etc. but usually they do not talk about the camera as one that might be useful as a basic teaching tool. For example, hardly anyone would recommend that someone buy a K1000 because many pro cameras have more and better features, etc.
Does your program already have a cache of Canon lenses? Or is it a Nikon based program?
We have extensive collections of both Canon and Nikon lenses. OOdles of lenses.
Are you looking to solicit donations from the manufacturers for this program?
Nope. This generally has not worked although we have been the lucky recipients
of long-term loans of high end digital and traditional cameras. And we have
also received outright donations from some/most companies. In fact _all_ have
been very generous to the program here. But we can't depend on donations all
the time. We have almost 800 photo majors here (in various tracks) and the
intent with these cameras would be to provide to one of the freshman classes a
basic camera that would not have all the features one might dream of but which
would provide the basis for instruction and learning about digital capture and
output, etc. Much like the K1000 ... but is the Rebel soo flimsy that students
will destroy them in a week? The lens so bad that it is useless? The capability
just totally limited so no exploration of digital "stuff" is possible?
It would be great (well, maybe not from an educational pov) to equip everyone with the top of the line camera available every other week it seems. But is there something that is more stable and which has the essence of what is prudent to have to get to know the system? Is the Rebel close to this is sort of the question.
Andy
