Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera - Blue
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Toys and Games Reviews of Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera - Blue
Customer Review: It's a great first camera -- just manage your expectations
Summary: 4 Stars
We gave our son this camera for his 4th birthday and he enjoys playing with it. He takes lots of pictures around the house and enjoys playing them back on the viewfinder screen. It is amazingly simple -- we taught him to use it in under two minutes.
The battery life is OK, not great.
Photo quality is definitely mediocre at best, especially in limited light conditions. Outdoors on a sunny day, it's actually not so bad. I'm a bit of a photo snob myself, but I don't mind the graininess of these pictures at all. Why not? Because it's A TOY. It's a way for children to learn a little about taking pictures, and a way for them to enjoy capturing what's in the world around them.
I just downloaded 228 pictures from this camera onto my computer and reviewed them with my son. An archetypical shot was a picture of the doorstop that holds open our playroom door. This is the sort of thing a 4-year-old takes a picture of. So I just don't care that it's grainy. He likes that he took a picture, so he's happy, and I frankly don't NEED a high-quality picture of the doorstop, so I'm happy. Only a prodigy would be able to select an interesting subject, create an artful composition and capture a great image as a preschooler. So I think its lack of high resolution is moot.
Check customer images to see real pictures taken by my 4-year-old.
Customer Review: A camera for the kids
Summary: 4 Stars
Our five year old enjoys this camera very much. He is learning how to better frame his shots, how to hold still so it's not blurry, and about judging the light to see if it will come out well, and unlike real film, you don't have to print out any pix that turn out badly. He has dropped it several times and it still works. He always gets attention using it as well, people are always saying, "it's real, not a toy?"
This camera is Mac/PC compatible. I was quite pleased to plug it into the Mac and have iPhoto pop up automatically. It came with software for the PC that we never bothered installing. We purchased an additional photo card so he can take hundreds of pictures without offloading them.
The picture quality is not that good compared to "grownup" cameras, it is grainy and low-light pictures are very bad. The autoflash does not always come on or behave how you'd expect. Best pictures are outdoor sunny day photos. When we can trust him with a more expensive camera (and we upgrade ourselves) he can have our old Kodak digital. I've decided the artifacts from this effect are a "style" like those folks using polaroids still. Perhaps we should start a flickr group for this camera? ;)
Customer Review: Perfect for introducing preschoolers to photography
Summary: 4 Stars
My husband and I purchased this camera as a birthday gift for my 4-year-old and she was thrilled with it. The design is wonderfully intelligent as it's very easy for her to grip the sides of the camera, which also helps to keep her finger away from the flash. I also think the two viewing holes are ingenious as it's much easier for her to handle than having to squint and use one eye would be.
The picture quality isn't really anything to write home about but it does take pretty decent pictures. The flash doesn't work all that well so a room has to be fairly well lit in order for anything to be distinguishable.
Using the buttons to looking through the pictures and to delete them as desired is also very easy. My daughter quickly got the hang of it and I often hear her scrolling through them and deleting the ones she doesn't like.
Still, I don't expect this to be a professional quality camera and it does the job it's designed to do quite well. My daughter has had a lot of fun with it and it's exciting for her to be able to take her own pictures and then to see them on the computer screen when we download them.
Customer Review: Giovanni's Grandma
Summary: 4 Stars
Says....I purchased this camera to replace one that turned out to be less than durable when used by a 2 year old. Yes---I tried to get away cheap at first, it was for a toddler, learned my lesson didn't I?
This one stands up to his manhandling of it and it is very easy for him to use. With the view finder that allows him to use both eyes to spot his subject he was using it like a pro right out of the box. The display screen gives a reasonable view of his pictures which really thrills him, and the camera connects to our computer via USB without a problem the resolution is about what you would expect from a toy and it takes better pictures outside in the daylight even though it has a flash. Hey he's only two; it doesn't take all that much to thrill him, he loves taking pictures of his dog, his grandpa and his matchbox cars.
The only thing I can even think of about a downside is that it is not the easiest thing to replace the batteries, but that's for the grownups to do. It amazes me that my grandson knew exactly how to work the thing without us having to do anything but show him which button to click.
Customer Review: Very tough
Summary: 5 Stars
This camera works well. It's very durable. It has a good flash. It doesn't eat batteries. It's blue (very important for boys, for some reason...B-). Now the small downsides. The image quality isn't fabulous, but my son doesn't seem put off by that in the least. It needs a fair amount of light to take a good picture, but again, that doesn't seem to bother my 5 year old, and the flash takes care of truly dark places.
What is this camera good for. Teaching holding the camera still to take a picture. No camera performs well, shaking around. Why don't little ones get that? Teaches image composition. They start to see what makes a good picture aesthetically (obviously my word...not his) pleasing. Helps them understand that pictures of people usually need to be close up to recognize the person...
The long and short of it? My 5 year old loves the camera and it takes the beating he gives it. I'm certain he'll be ready to move up to a real camera in a couple of years, with no concerns, and by then, my 3 year old and 2 year old will be ready for this one!