Yes, Cameras are an Obsession

 I am on my third digital camera. I bought my first one after Gedalya's birth, when my film camera broke. It was a low end Kodak C360 (back then it was pretty up to date!)

I gave my mother the Kodak when I upgraded to a more professional Canon SX100 after 2 years.

 I had that Canon for 2 1/2 years, until I upgraded to my current Canon SX30.

 My mother brought back the Kodak for the kids to use, and I gave her the first Canon.


So now my kids had their own camera! The boys used it faithfully since November.

Adi would pick it up once or twice as well. I usually put on a slideshow of the images for her and she was happy.

We even replaced the old, grubby wrist strap with a new, colorful one that was custom made to fit a smaller hand.

After the move, the camera and its' batteries were unpacked and put to the side... we were all too busy with other stuff to think about  it.
When Zusha was taking treats to cheider on his birthday to give out to his classmates, I dug out the batteries, charged them, and sent the camera along.
Now the boys are interested more than ever. I am giving them lessons. So far we covered angles, background (and how angles affect lots of things, like background), lens maintenance, focus, when to use flash and when to refrain.

Thing is, Adi is also more interested than ever, and she sneaks the boys' camera away all the time. Then she graces the lens with her lovely fingerprints. (See above.) I showed Adi the shutter button and helped her click it a few times, and now she's all into it.
This is an old camera, and the contacts are beginning to get bad. Like the macro and video modes. They are right next to each other on the wheel, and often it jumps between those two modes when you are in one of them.

So with the boys being so interested, and with the camera causing more frustration than anything else, I started to look around for another camera I can buy for the boys. After a few weeks of searching, deliberating, comparing functions and prices, I decided on this one:

It was only $38! Imagine that. And it has all the cool stuff my first camera doesn't: AV mode, even manual! I'm not teaching the boys manual, because I haven't mastered it myself. Haha. But I did teach them white balance, a feature that the other camera doesn't have, either.

I'll post photos that the boys took soon!
And the Kodak is now Adi's. We'll see what she will achieve with it!