FisherPrice kids camera

I know I will probably get laughed at for this but who cares. I was playing around with my daughters camera that she got for Christmas and realized just how far our technology has come.


Fisher-Price digital camera, v2.1

Nowadays we have pretty much everything that is available for adults in some sort of kid-sized equivalent. Battery powered cars (Power wheels), fake cell phones, real cell phones, kids friendly computers, you name it and someone has likely made a kids equivalent of it aside from a dumbed down re-write of War and Peace.
Today I take a look at the Fisher-Price digital camera for kids. The outside has a stiff rubber grip for the sides and hard plastic along the sides and bottom. The batteries are 2 per side, so 4xAA batteries. It is about as kid friendly as you can get. It has a 1.3" square LCD in the middle of the back to review pictures. Push the blue power button to turn it on, they push one button on the front to take a picture, there is left and right arrow buttons on the back to review pictures, and then a red delete button opposite the LCD of the power button. A double press of the delete button deletes the picture seen in the LCD.


The camera includes 8MB of internal memory, not sure if it is flash but it does have a slot under the battery cover that allows use of a standard SD flash card if you need more memory. It also has a screwed in battery slot for a CR2032 battery which I assume is for long term storage of the camera so that the pictures inside are not lost.
The standard pictures are 640x480 (about 0.3 Megapixel), but the high resolution does take some nice shots. Push 3 buttons at the same time (the 2 red < and > arrow buttons and the red/pink button on the front that takes the picture itself) and it switches into high resolution mode. You can tell it is enabled by a small checkerboard icon on the LCD. The HR mode takes pictures at 1280x960 (1.2 Megapixel) and allows for about 25 pictures on the internal memory. Using the regular low resolution allows for up to 60 pictures to be taken.
I have a daughter that is 5 (going on 30 it seems) and when she is playing around with it, I keep it in low resolution mode. If we go out or have company where some pictures may be worthwhile, I switch it to high resolution and she has had a great time with it. The higher resolution pictures print out well on a photo printer at 4"x6" or smaller.
Battery life is surprisingly quite good, if it is barely used, I have had batteries last several months. If it is heavily used then they last 2-3 weeks.
This is a great camera for kids under the age of 8 and is virtually indestructible except for water damage. If they use it a lot, just make sure you buy some rechargeable Ni-MH AAs as a busy kid will eat through batteries every few weeks.

Below are some direct links to pictures since they are larger than HL rules allow, all of these are original size that the camera took in low resolution mode. All pictures linked here were taken by my daughter at some point over the past 2 months.

640x480 default mode
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1280x960 mode
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Time to get polobunny a new camera and a SD memory card!