Hello, I've been working in a home for adults with learning difficulties for a few months now and recently I was made a key worker for one of the resident there. As my responsibility is to look after the individuals needs I have been asked to try and interact and do activities that can stimulate the resident. He enjoys the outdoors and nature, and because I have photography experience and interest my thinking was to try some wildlife observing (given the Covid19 restrictions we are limited to the, pretty gigantic, garden of the premise).
There are a large quantity of squirrels, small and medium size UK birds, badgers and on rare occasions deer and foxes. We have a few local wildlife and birds book that we used to spot and check what birds we can see. And I'm thinking of adding binoculars to the mix to help spot them in detail.
But a birthday is coming up in 3 weeks and I've been thinking of getting a camera so he can make pictures. (It will be from his own budget but I'm not sure how big the budget is... Yet, I will update when I can find out).
The needs are simple:
*Enough reach for small birds up to 50 meters,
*Decent macro capabilities for the focus on flowers,
*OK wide angle for occasional landscape when we can start traveling,
*Up to A4 prints but it doest have to be the highest quality, just for self use and display,
*JPEG will be the main form of media for easy printing and sharing, no editing at all,
*Simple design and controls as possible
(Because he has learning difficulties he has the understanding of about the age of 8 years old, so the camera will be used is the most point and shoot mode as possible)
While I will be with him most of the time when doing outdoors activity it's best to make the process as simple as possible to give him the feeling of independence and achievement. He will be assisted with printing as well.
The camera will be 2nd hand (if I can find it in stock in UK) and the budget shouldn't be more then 400-500 £.
I haven't read up on bridge cameras since the early 2010s and there's a lot of models and information to sip through in not a lot of time (to do it manually). Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
There are a large quantity of squirrels, small and medium size UK birds, badgers and on rare occasions deer and foxes. We have a few local wildlife and birds book that we used to spot and check what birds we can see. And I'm thinking of adding binoculars to the mix to help spot them in detail.
But a birthday is coming up in 3 weeks and I've been thinking of getting a camera so he can make pictures. (It will be from his own budget but I'm not sure how big the budget is... Yet, I will update when I can find out).
The needs are simple:
*Enough reach for small birds up to 50 meters,
*Decent macro capabilities for the focus on flowers,
*OK wide angle for occasional landscape when we can start traveling,
*Up to A4 prints but it doest have to be the highest quality, just for self use and display,
*JPEG will be the main form of media for easy printing and sharing, no editing at all,
*Simple design and controls as possible
(Because he has learning difficulties he has the understanding of about the age of 8 years old, so the camera will be used is the most point and shoot mode as possible)
While I will be with him most of the time when doing outdoors activity it's best to make the process as simple as possible to give him the feeling of independence and achievement. He will be assisted with printing as well.
The camera will be 2nd hand (if I can find it in stock in UK) and the budget shouldn't be more then 400-500 £.
I haven't read up on bridge cameras since the early 2010s and there's a lot of models and information to sip through in not a lot of time (to do it manually). Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
