Best Children's digital camera?

[Biscuitsandtea]

Hi, we were thinking of buying DS a digital camera for Christmas.

He seems to like our camera and what with iphones etc is used to having lots of cameras around, so it would be nice to have one where I'm not going 'don't press that bit, be careful' etc!

Also, we are having a digital SLR camera for our present so thought he could 'join in' as it were. Plus we are expecting DC2 in March so thought it might be nice for him to have a camera then if he wants to be involved in the photographing etc (obviously no pressure, but with all those cameras around....).

I quite like the idea too that they actually work, you know, so he can take real pictures with it.

So my questions are:

1. DS will be 3.3 at Christmas - is he likely to be able to use such a thing? I'm thinking he'd probably get the hang of it after a while?

1. What's the best one around in terms of being easy to use / good quality etc?

Thank you

Reasonable comapct cameras are dead cheap now. Don't buy anything like the VTech kids ones, which are rubbish. Google shopping will find plenty of decent Fujifilm compacts for about £50. Our DD got one for her 4th birthday and she's had no trouble with it.

Oh really? I was sort of assuming one of the 'kids' ones. Are they not good then?

I was worried he might get sidetracked by the different buttons etc on a normal one (aside from perhaps finding it a bit fiddly). You know if you press the wrong thing and get menu screens popping up etc he wouldn't know how to get back to just 'point and shoot' sort of thing?

A friend got VTech kids' cameras for her children. The picture quality is rubbish and they broke rapidly. Our daughter has had no problems with her Fuji. OK, she hasn't got the hang of zoom and all the modes, but she doesn't really need all that. She'll learn when she's a bit older, I'm sure.

I just got one from amazon called high school musical digital camera,. it was only a tenner and holds 300 pics, looks great, fab for 5yo DD

Tesco are currently advertising a 10MP Fujifilm camera for £30. For comparison the kids cameras are generally 1MP, which is very poor. Even cheap mobile phones have at least 2MP resolution.