Joel -- It sounds like a lot to me. You are doing the right sort of thing
as a father -- keep it up!
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: [OM] Father's Day Post-Mortem
> I had a great Father's Day weekend by doing a Tom Scales thing and
teaching
> my eight-year-old son, Thomas, to shoot an OM-1.
>
> I simplified this first outing by explaining only three steps: turning
the
> meter on and off, focusing, and setting the proper stop according to the
> meter reading. Using ASA 400 print film, I set his shutter speed to
1/125.
>
> We rode in my truck on Saturday afternoon. I was scouting locations for
the
> next morning. We would stop and he would take a shot as the spirit
directed.
> These scouting trips have always been so boring for him that I rarely
take
> him along, much as I would like to. But with his own camera, this one had
a
> different meaning. Even our conversation was improved. My son avidly draws
> and sketches. He wondered aloud why it is that we often know exactly how
> something we want to draw should look but we can't actually draw it that
> way. I told him that even photography is like that more than you would
> think.
>
> My dad had one camera in his life and he was pretty good with it until it
> broke. He used it mainly for his One Great Trip to Europe in the mid-50's,
> and as kids we looked at those slides over and over again. I know that
had
> a huge impact on my interest in photography, but I never learned anything
> from him directly about it. I'm hoping that will be a little different
with
> my son. But mostly I'm just hoping it is something we will enjoy doing
> together, often.
>
> It doesn't sound like much, but that was a good weekend.
>
> Joel W.
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