"Daddy, why is your camera so ... big?"

**SergeiR** · 8-Dec-2014, 07:15

"b/c i can see you better"?

(PS: i am sorry, but RB doesn't weight all that much.. Its barely newborn's weight even with big lens)

**steveo** · 8-Dec-2014, 08:05

(PS: i am sorry, but RB doesn't weight all that much.. Its barely newborn's weight even with big lens)

Literary licence....

It is still too heavy for a four year old to hold, compose and focus...

**SergeiR** · 8-Dec-2014, 10:14

Originally Posted by steveo

(PS: i am sorry, but RB doesn't weight all that much.. Its barely newborn's weight even with big lens)

Literary licence....

It is still too heavy for a four year old to hold, compose and focus...

4 years? Time to bulk up.. Its off to the coal mines at 6, you know

"In your days, i walked up 5 miles, up hill.. in snow... "

)
(can't convince me now youngest one at 6 to do planking for 20s.. *sighs* kids these days)

**Andrew O'Neill** · 8-Dec-2014, 10:24

Whenever I bring the camera out, they usually leave the room.

**rbultman** · 8-Dec-2014, 11:24

Don't have a talk. Buy them a film SLR, some film, take them out shooting and infect them.

**Heroique** · 8-Dec-2014, 11:34

Originally Posted by rbultman

Don't have a talk. Buy them a film SLR, some film, take them out shooting and infect them.

That's what my Dad did.

I was 12 years old; it was a used Canon TL camera.

It worked!

Sometimes, actions can speak louder than a face-to-face talk, but both are important...

**steveo** · 8-Dec-2014, 15:59

Originally Posted by SergeiR

4 years? Time to bulk up.. Its off to the coal mines at 6, you know

"In your days, i walked up 5 miles, up hill.. in snow... "

)
(can't convince me now youngest one at 6 to do planking for 20s.. *sighs* kids these days)

Don't know you were born, I walked to school 10 miles a day, up hill, both ways...

**Alan Gales** · 8-Dec-2014, 16:19

Originally Posted by rbultman

Don't have a talk. Buy them a film SLR, some film, take them out shooting and infect them.

I bought my daughter a polaroid camera when she was little. When she got older I bought her an Olympus OM-1. Now she is wanting to go out with me shooting the 8x10. Yes!

**Deval** · 9-Dec-2014, 21:09

I always offer kids a chance to look at the ground glass...that is usually enough to overcome the where is the picture question. It is wise to talk about film... Train them on digital first.. Shoot with them. Make film a reward to earn... Then they will be hooked. These days just getting kids to understand that a photography is an art not just a method of pointing a cell phone at oneself is the first step...

**Bruce Pollock** · 10-Dec-2014, 21:24

I know a guy who has a Yashica twin-lens reflex, and when kids ask him what it is, he tells them it's a camera that makes pictures WITHOUT A COMPUTER! And they say, wow, that's cool.