RE: Point & shoot cameras

[mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Great point Karl.  It also poses the question of how the students images would be handled.  If every student in the class has a laptop, then its not a problem.  Somehow the images have to be post processed if they are going to look their best.  But a class of 30 bringing in 30 CF cards with 25 or so images each all to be processed on one classroom computer is going to be a big job for someone to do.

FWIW though I think getting people involved in photography at a young age is going to teach them a number good things that will stick with them for life, regardless of whether or  not they ever pick up a camera again.

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Subject: Re: Point & shoot cameras
From: karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, May 23, 2009 12:08 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Jonathan writes:


: Hi,
:
: Just wandered if anyone has any recommendations for some reasonably cheap
: but good quality 'point & shoot' cameras.
:
: I'm doing some work in a primary school, the school has a budget to buy
some
: cameras for the kids to use, but not really sure where to start...there's
so
: much out there!
:
: They don't need to have aperture and shutter priority (though wouldn't be
a
: problem if they did) but would be good if they had a view finder as well
as
: live view screen...
:
: Any suggestions welcome.

no suggestions re the camera, but one re *using* them - do not install the
manufacturers connection software, instead use card readers to connect or
teach the stuidents to connect and copy the image files from the camera
connected as a mass storage device.

karl