It seem that a lot of people feel that just because they are vaccinated, they are safe. Data is showing this not to be true, so do be careful. New variants are looking like they will not be deterred by a vaccine, so you are putting yourself into a situation like it was at the start of all this, when there was no vaccine. Only thing is that now the virus is worse than the original. Ask yourself if your future health and possibly your life, is worth a risky trip to anywhere, right now.

Better to be able to walk and talk and pick up a camera in a year or two from now that to think you have to take a trip anywhere right now, that might open you to contracting what ever virus is out there. You have no idea of who each person is that you will be coming into contact with from the moment you step outside until you are home.

I feel those that travel right now just for fun are the risk takers and due to that, we have no idea how risky they live their lives. Therefore, for me, I would rather not be around any of these types for the time being. I value my health, future health and life far more than the urge to take a trip somewhere, that I can do next year or the year after or the year after that.

I have a thought about this. If you get donations of different cameras, they may or may not have manual capabilities, but if they do, there will be a hodgepodge of different menus and buttons to achieve manual control. Each student will have something different to work with. You should do some research into some different models of past, used digital cameras and settle on one. But then you have to go about finding as many of these cameras as you need. Typically they will be sold one at a time by individuals or sometimes stores.

The beauty of old film cameras is that the controls are very simple and pretty uniform. The shutter speed and aperture controls are more than obvious, even in cameras from different manufacturers. That's not to say that teaching digital photography doesn't have merit. It certainly does, but for a classroom, you're going to want a number of copies of the same camera, and the newer the camera, the higher price you'll pay.