Regardless of age, nothing will be good instruction and hands on experience in my opinion. Get the kid out there and using the camera. Kids minds are like sponges and will absorb more than adults. Just make sure it's good instruction.
PixieBlue wrote: When my daughter was 7 I gave her a Fuji digital camera, nothing fancy, just something she could experiment with and start capturing what
caught her interest. We would then upload the images and go over them
together and I would ask her what caught her attention when she took the
shot. On hikes I would encourage her to try different angles on a
particular subject, such as getting the camera to the ground and
shooting the trail ahead.
Remember, the world is gigantic to a 7 year old and they have a voracious appetite for learning. If your
child puts photography on the back burner to learn something else, don't
worry, the seed has been planted and they WILL come back to it.
Practice produces passion and even if they put the camera down for a
couple of years, the desire is still within them, as with my daughter,
who gave it up for about a year and a half, only to pick it back up again
last month. Here is a recent photo she took (she is now 9):
I asked her the other day what caught her eye when she was taking this photo and she said that she likes how the branches seem to be touching the sky. We uploaded this image to a free online user-friendly photo editor and she "tweaked" the photo. It is best not to get too technical with children at first because it may frustrate them, so keep it creative and fun....techi stuff can come later.
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