Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera for Girls
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Toys and Games Reviews of Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera for Girls
Customer Review: Great for young kids (despite low quality photos)
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm an avid amateur photographer and my 3 1/2 year old daughter was often pretending to take photos. So for Christmas we got her this camera and she really likes it! However, it's not perfect...
PROS
- Tough & sturdy -- it'll withstand a 3 year old's mistreatment
- Easy & fun for a child to use
- Good size for small hands
- Dual-eye viewfinder doesn't require child to close one eye
- Is a real digital camera (won't waste film!)
- Works seamlessly with Apple iPhoto
CONS
- Poor photo quality -- 4x6 prints are very grainy. Ideally, I think this should've been at least a 1MP camera (or cost no more than $50)
- Doesn't always fire flash in low light
- LCD screen is hard to see
- When taking photos, you need to compensate for high viewfinder (it cuts off people's heads otherwise...but perhaps I'm too used to my SLR)
To sum up, for a young child (3-6) who's interested in photography, this is a great first camera. (I'd recommend picking up a cheap 16MB or 32MB SD flash card to go with it.) For somewhat older kids (7+) I think they'd be disappointed with this camera -- you'd probably be better off buying a used 2-3MP digital point & shoot camera off eBay for the same money.
Customer Review: Good idea - needs more work.
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this toy camera for my niece. She loves to check out what I'm doing with my camera. I decided to test this camera before giving it as a gift. I decided not to keep it because if I can't hold the camera still enough to get a "somewhat decent" image - neither can a child. To me a large part of the joy of photography is the finished print and I believe my niece will be disappointed with the prints and lose interest. I checked the images, I took, in my photo program and discovered that the camera is using an absurdly sloooooow shutter speed (time it takes the camera to take the photo) making it impossible to hold the camera still long enough to get anything good. The viewing screen is total crap and that little string you have to pull on to get the small battery drawer out - that's just total junk. I agree with another of the reviews here - better to purchase a small, cheap real digital camera. Possible drop and break vs. never used - cost approximately the same - atleast you'll have some prints worth looking at.Customer Review: BUY THIS NOW! The best toy, great idea!
Summary: 5 Stars
This camera is just great. Yes, it could have a clearer picture in the viewing window but what a concept! It is so easy to use that my just turned four year old can turn it on and off, take the pictures and delete or save them on her own. My six and eight year old love it too. One took it to a friends birthday party and it was a hit. Kids always want to take corny pictures when you are on vacation or making silly faces and such and they can until their heart is content with this and then by the time they are interested in taking pictures of something else, they are almost always ready to delete the last things and you never have to develop film to satisfy them. My kids ran around taking silly shots of eachother and the pets around the house. Have not even had the desire to hook it up to see it on a TV screen or to print, so haven't gone through that. They just love seeing their picture captured on the little screen. [...]
Customer Review: great for a 3 yr old!
Summary: 4 Stars
I think this is a great camera for a 3 yr old!! My daughter got it for Christmas this week (she'll be 3 in Jan.) and she had all the buttons figured out in about 5 minutes. She was able to center people in the frame, too. I was worried about getting a lot of ceiling and floor shots, but she does great! yes, the lcd screen is pretty low quality, but it's $[...] for a toddler!! What do you expect? It takes okay pictures inside, and I imagine it would take better pictures outside. The software it came with is great though! It lets you do a ton of stuff with the pictures, and is very user friendly. You can do great slideshows and share the photos online. I have even been using her software to upload my pictures from my camera to! All in all, my daughter loves it! And her being so excited about doing it herself and seeing 'her' picutres is worth more to me than a low quality lcd screen.
Customer Review: Good, but could be better
Summary: 4 Stars
Got this for my daughter's fifth birthday. It's tough, and survives her taking it to school and having the other kids take pics too, great job there. It's really interesting as a father to see how she spent her day.
Quality, however, could easily be better. They are comparable to my old cannon 1.3 megapixel, set at its lowest resolution, which means much lower than 1.3 megapixel. My phone takes better pics, and for today's day and age (not to mention the price) you should expect more. At least one megapixel, please! I bought a 516 additional memory card and she'll be able to take pictures till she's 16 years old w/out deleting any!
Fisher price: Go back, do it again and get it right please (2 megapixels and its a 5 star +). I'll happily buy another and I can't find anything comparable on the market (as bad as the resolution is, the others I saw seem even worse).