Re: Digital Camera for Elderly Individual (Rush reply)
Hi All,
Was looking for possible suggestions and recommendations. I was hoping to purchase a small, and quite inexpensive digital P&S for a lovely relative (woman) getting on in age. I'll provide a bit of background that may help solicit opinions in choice of camera.
She used to enjoy shooting a simple film P&S and then dropping off the film for typical 4x6" prints. Getting out is generally infrequent now as the years have advanced . She is in her mid 80's and her husband over 90. She always game to learn a few things and turns on her desktop that was set up for her to send and receive e-mails and is a very capable person to learn and use a bit of technology.
I was looking for a P&S that had a big rear LCD to make it easy for her eyesight and instead of hooking up a card reader, a camera she could simply attach a USB cord to, and hood up to her PC desktop, that would bring up the simplest and uncomplicated software (almost plug and play), whereby by clicking on a large icon on her desktop screen, would allow the images she took with the camera to be available to insert into an e-mail without having to do my else (including her having to 1st downsize the images).
I guess I could set the camera to take small sized jpegs in advance?).
Although unlikely, maybe on the infrequent occasion remove the SD card and have someone hand it in for prints (that's the easy part). The harder part is the rest of what I described above.
I want to keep this both simple (especially the plug and play part she will have to content with, and relatively (quite) inexpensive and a camera that I can quickly purchase now. It's the ease of being able to take shots, plug in the camera via USB and then basically having the images show up and somehow making the process of attaching one of those images to an e-mail as simple with as few steps as possible for her to deal with.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions with a name and model # of such camera. Thanks!
Dave (D&A)
Hi All,
Was looking for possible suggestions and recommendations. I was hoping to purchase a small, and quite inexpensive digital P&S for a lovely relative (woman) getting on in age. I'll provide a bit of background that may help solicit opinions in choice of camera.
She used to enjoy shooting a simple film P&S and then dropping off the film for typical 4x6" prints. Getting out is generally infrequent now as the years have advanced . She is in her mid 80's and her husband over 90. She always game to learn a few things and turns on her desktop that was set up for her to send and receive e-mails and is a very capable person to learn and use a bit of technology.
I was looking for a P&S that had a big rear LCD to make it easy for her eyesight and instead of hooking up a card reader, a camera she could simply attach a USB cord to, and hood up to her PC desktop, that would bring up the simplest and uncomplicated software (almost plug and play), whereby by clicking on a large icon on her desktop screen, would allow the images she took with the camera to be available to insert into an e-mail without having to do my else (including her having to 1st downsize the images).
I guess I could set the camera to take small sized jpegs in advance?).
Although unlikely, maybe on the infrequent occasion remove the SD card and have someone hand it in for prints (that's the easy part). The harder part is the rest of what I described above.
I want to keep this both simple (especially the plug and play part she will have to content with, and relatively (quite) inexpensive and a camera that I can quickly purchase now. It's the ease of being able to take shots, plug in the camera via USB and then basically having the images show up and somehow making the process of attaching one of those images to an e-mail as simple with as few steps as possible for her to deal with.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions with a name and model # of such camera. Thanks!
Dave (D&A)