I want to buy a camera for my aunt, who has Down's Syndrome, for Christmas. She loves taking photos, and can operate a point and shoot, but I need something that will switch simply from the playback mode and the picture taking mode. She can't read, so something with symbols would be good.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a really, super-easy digital camera? She had a 35mm camera but it broke and we want to avoid buying her another one as she spends a fortune buying and developing film.
Best Answer: buy her a children's digital camera they are easy to operate since they are for kids
- Fisher Price kid tough digital camera or any on these there really durable. http://www.amazon.com/tag/digital%20came...
- Kodaks are known to be very user friendly.
- you should buy her a Canon Powershot SD 300
- I don't know and can't tell what your aunt's capabilities are, other than she had a 35 mm camera and it sounds like it worked out for her.
Canon probably makes the most solid range of cameras and some of them have both an optical viewfinder, which she is will be more familiar with, and the LCD screen. The more capable ones will get you into problems with using menus so the most automatic ones are the ones you want to look at. The settings from the camera body are symbols.
With most cameras, you can set the display period after exposure to a certain period and then it will be ready to take a picture and preparing to take another picture will switch it out of playback. That really leaves just being able to switch to playback.
You can buy them in combination with small Canon printers that print directly from the camera and would allow her to make her own prints.
You're the one that knows her current abilities and what she CAN learn. I would recommend trying:
www.dpreview.com
They have very complete reviews of many cameras and that includes how they are laid out, how easy the controls are to use, etc. Combined with your knowledge of your Aunt's current capabilities and learning capacity, I am sure you will make a good choice.
There are a lot of point and shoot cameras out there that would work, but I recommend looking at the Canon because their most general settings tend to cover a broader range of shooting conditions than some other makers who have chosen to provide a lot of different settings.
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- Most digital cameras can be set up so that pressing the shutter button activates shooting mode.
And they all have a "display" button with a symbol or simple word on it. So there shouldn't be an issue with any brand you buy.
However you should consider that with a film camera, all your aunt has to do is press the shutter and a photofinisher does the rest.
With a digital camera there are multitudes of controls which can mess up her pictures without her understanding why.
There's a memory card which gets filled up and has to be transferred to a computer.
There's a CD which has to be burned as a backup. And a memory card that has to be cleared.
If she wants prints, she has to select which ones (she can easily fill a card with hundreds).
She'll have to send the images to an online printer or take the card or the CD to the store.
What I'm getting at is that while film is expensive, the digital process is complicated and may make her dependent on the computer skills of others.
I wonder if film -- which your aunt (with the help of her photofinisher) can do all by herself -- might give her more independence and therefore might be the better choice.
Just something to consider.
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