The Fisher Price Digital Camera is designed specifically for preschoolers and comes in blue or pink. It is a real digital camera that can hold up to 500 pictures at 640 x 480 resolution (good for 4 x 6 inch prints), and it is designed to survive whatever preschoolers can dish out, including dropping it in the toilet, because now it’s waterproof.
Like a grown-up’s digital camera, it has a little color LCD screen so that kids can see the pictures they took. But unlike mom or dad’s camera, no reading is required to operate the controls. The Fisher Price Digital Camera comes with a CD that contains software to put the cameras onto a computer, and a USB cord to hook the two up.
The Fisher Price Digital Camera is recommended for ages 3 to 6. It has dual hand grips that were made specifically for little hands, and the viewfinder is designed for two-eye viewing, so kids don’t have to know how to keep just one eye open to use it. It requires four AA batteries, sold separately.
While it is designed to survive a 4-year-old, it wasn’t really designed to take great pictures. The picture quality has been described as similar to cell phone pictures, but with most little kids, it’s the creation of the pictures that is the real thrill. The camera is easy to use: there is one red button on top. There’s no focusing or zooming. The flash comes on automatically in low lighting conditions, and it takes about two to three seconds for the flash to recharge itself. The back of the camera has a power button and two buttons for scrolling through the pictures that have been saved. There is also a red button that is for deleting pictures while reviewing them.
Parents report that these cameras really are that tough, surviving tantrums, drops, and accidents with no trouble. Read the latest reviews at: Amazon.com
