My daughter, 16 year old, wants to join the photography club and needs
a camera.  I am absolutely clueless about which camera to buy.  Would
any of your kind people gives me suggestions, please?  Does she need
anything besides a camera to start?

For current and future users of digital photo cameras.
http://digitalphotocameras.blogspot.com/

I just read a 10 year old post about using a G-Claron as a 'pseudo-
convertible' by using one cell; performance would probably be better
than 'vintage' convertibles.
I had previously wondered about splitting plasmats but wrote it off as

Just picked up some film from the lab yesterday. I was a
bit surprised to find them now charging $3.95 a sheet
for 4x5 E6. Sigh.

I bought a used Kigamo Scanback 6000 which I try to get to work with an
XP notebook through an Adaptec 1460B PCMCIA SCSI adapter.
Unfortunately the software doesn't recognize the camera.
Kigamo refuses to assist me with the problem, instead they write mails