Zoe wants a camera

[jeffreyg]

Seeing their world through their eyes is enlightening. Just teach her the basic mechanics and leave the compositions and subjects up to her.

Jeff

 

[j-dogg]

Scrap the Rollei 35, any of the brick cameras full auto from the 80's will work. Minolta Hi-matic af

 

[Selidor]

Your daughter deserves the best, no? Thus the choice is elementary: Phase One 645 plus IQ180 digital back.

On a slightly more serious note, I also had a Fisher Price 110 camera when I was that age (1993). That thing was indeed tough, and capable of surprisingly good exposures. You could turn the flash off too. Ah, how I loved ripping into the foil of a new pack of Kodak Gold... But It had a horrible viewfinder (like some really awkward binoculars arrangement; they should have used the Nikon F3HP as a starting point...) and it badly needed a macro mode, which is ironic because I never do any macro work as an adult, which leads me onto this...

Seeing their world through their eyes is enlightening. Just teach her the basic mechanics and leave the compositions and subjects up to her.

+1.