5 year old photographer

AnthonyL wrote:

RRAz wrote:

My children were all intrigued by photography at early ages. However, I found that as a point of entry their experimentation was better confined to the elementary arts of framing and composition. Mostly what they wanted was for me to get out of the way and let them shoot. To that end, whatever point-and-shoot I could give them sustained their curiosity the longest. They chased the cat, explored the garden, and invaded all privacies when mostly limited to zoom and auto-everything else. Now teenagers, they use various widgets on their cell-cameras to 'edit' their images and currently have almost no interest in DSLR photography.

That would seem to be an argument in favour of bringing up your kids properly and giving them a DSLR at the age of 5! Now they are for ever doomed to social media pics. <insert appropriate smiley here>

My own personal story is that my father, who was also a very good photographer, began to integrate me into photography at the age of 3.  I learned on a Zeiss Ikon camera.  Naturally, he would adjust the settings and I would learn to frame the shot and release the shutter.  I haven't put down a camera since and I'm now 62...LOL!!  I have a cellphone but never use it for creating images.  I currently carry my 6D with me wherever I go albeit, there's not much to photograph in New Jersey....LOL!!  Through my teen years I carried a Honey Pentax SP500 and probably took my best images with that camera having grown up in Greenwich Village which was one of the most interesting places to take pictures.  I believe in giving children the opportunity to learn how to use a CAMERA versus a cellphone.