My high school kid wants a camera

[John Koehrer]

It's not going to help by forcing him to use your sort of camera, it'll end up like the FG.

[pbromaghin]

Let him have what he wants for now. If he figures out it's not all that good, then you can push a good camera in front of him. Hell, it's less than $20.

[Stephanie Brim]

I would look at the lesser known autofocus P&S. The Olympus Stylus Epic may be a little pricey right now, but Canon, Yashica, and Konica all made something similar.

[Bill Burk]

At the bottom of this page you can see why he wants this particular camera...

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum52/9...-mother-2.html

I took it away from him and gave it to my mom...

[markbarendt]

At the bottom of this page you can see why he wants this particular camera...

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum52/9...-mother-2.html

I took it away from him and gave it to my mom...

Dug yer own hole eh?

Can't say I haven't done that kinda thing.

So now what?

[LarryP]

Bill, If he is amenable to a different p&s to replace the old one I saw a pentax iqzoom 90 wr on the auction site for $35 shipped. I used to use those on construction sites for documentation and found them to be fairly decent little cameras for a p&s. I have no connection to the seller and have not done business with him but here is the link.http://www.ebay.com/itm/PENTAX-Zoom-...item43b5a05589

[Bill Burk]

Dug yer own hole eh?

Can't say I haven't done that kinda thing.

So now what?

Yup, I sure did and now I have to make it right somehow...

At the time I thought I'd just give him one of my point and shoots...

Then I realized the only auto anything I had was the ESII and OM-4 with auto exposure.

[MattKing]

In our area, I would just take him shopping at our local thrift stores. $5 would buy any of a number of them. You could check them out for him and he could decide.

[Peter Simpson]

Buy him what he wants, then get a Nikon F3 and leave it on the table by the front door :-)

[dsmccrac]

I know a fair bit about snowboarding and I have to be careful how much I steer what board my daughter gets. I will try to steer the choice towards a handful of boards that are OK and not too expensive and then I let her choose even if it is not one I am 100% crazy about (I am not keen on rockered boards if their are any shredders out there) because I know if she does not like it she will not snowboard. So if you are steering away from a camera male sure there is some buy in. Eg if he wants a yucky zoom you may want tort that ride. Most of us thought zooms were cool at some point.