Dear all
many thanks for your advice on digital cameras- collated responses below. I particularly enjoyed the photos taken by children of insects! Have decided to go for the kodak easy share system, as will need to print off and use pictures immediately after they've been taken.
Harriet
Harriet Jefferies
Education and Access Officer ss Great Britain
Great Western Dockyard
Bristol
BS1 6TY
Tel: 0117 926 0680 x 221
1. we used the Kodak easy share and you can also get a docking port for it which will enable you to print off pictures there and then
2. Have a look at Tag Learning and the Digital Blue camera
http://www.taglearning.com/browse/product.php?sid=37DOFOtq9ILeNBDG0NEIIR
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This is a fabulous product and is really cost-effective for both stills and video work. It is robust, easy to use and kids love it! I have seen it used lots of times with school groups and the results are great.
3. We used Cannon A40 cameras 2 years ago for a photography workshop with 5 to 12 year olds. I imagine the model has been superseded but the children found them easy to use. Attached are 3 images some of the participants took.
We took pictures of beasties - garden snails, stick insects and fruit
beetles, in especially made tanks. I'm no photography expert but the
biggest challenge I found was getting them to see that the animals were
actually in the picture! There were loads of half beetles etc. Also,
tripods are essential as the children couldn't keep the cameras still enough.
Using a card reader really saved on batteries rather than using the camera to download the images. We also bought sets of rechargeable batteries as the normal ones got zapped within minutes.
4. Milestones (Hampshire's living history museum in Basingstoke) uses Sony Digital Still Camera MVC-FD73.
These were bought around 4 years ago. They are VERY easy to use!
5. I have seen Digital Blue cameras work very successfully with primary school
children an animation workshops at Bradford Industrial Museum. They are
incredibly simple to use, and take low-resolution still images and video.
6. At Nottingham we've got some big, chunky Sony Mavikas which are great for
kids and older people too. They are very straight forward to use and their
size makes them easier to handle than the tiny ones on the market these
days. We got them (second hand I think) from Jessops the photo shop. The
other good thing is that they take floppy discs (can get about 4 images on)
as well as memory stick.
7. Here in Nottingham we use Sony Mavica (MVC-FD200) 2.0 Mega Pixels which are nice a chunky and can be loaded with disks and can use a memory stick for working with children. We also use an Epson Stylus photo printer 935 that we plug the memory sticks straight into and print images directly from the printer without having to upload them onto a computer first. The Mavica 's
can be bought from Jessops second hand at very good prices.
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