Cameras for kids and beginners? I found a cheap alternative that kept the family happy. I'm happy with my fifteen or so cameras but my wife and two sons don't share my sickness and find them all too difficult, weird or intimidating. They have no interest in taking more than the occasional snapshot - after all, I can do the tricky stuff, can't I? So, while buying a Canon Speedlight in a second hand shop, I also bought an old Canon Sureshot (Autoboy) for my 15 year old son for about $US25. It was old (early '80's?) but solid - the first autofocus P&S, I think. The results he got without trying were so good that I took a closer look. Good viewfinder, focus indicator, robust, AA batteries. Great. For $15, I bought another one for my other son, a 21 year old who seems to take most of his snapshots at drunken parties or similarly extreme environments. Even better! I bought one for my wife too! Then one to keep in the car as a 'just in case.' In all. I bought five for between $10 to $25 and only had to take one back as a dud - most pawn shops offer a one month or a one film warranty. I lend them to people, lend them to my students (take a few shots for the school magazine on that sports excursion), take them out in the rain and sand and, when I finally break one, I'll throw it away gratefully. They're small and black so are good street shooters, especially in awkward situations like protests. And f2.8 isn't too bad either. This is the ultimate disposeable - Canon must have made squillions of them. I think they almost all still work and seem to have been owned by people who hardly used them.
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