fisher price digital camera -- has anyone bought one?

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contemplating getting ds (4.5) a camera as he loves pictures and taking pictures. dh let him take pictures with his old phone, but phone has now stopped working so that's no longer an option. so have seen this camera on elc - and was wondering if any good?

I looked at this too - thought ds (alos 4.5) would love it, but dh sniffed at it saying something techy about pixels and quality and software compatibility said no - but I thought it looked great and really easy to use. Great idea about the old phone though - shame that's bust

We looked at it, but it seemed like a lot of money to buy a not very good camera, so we have given ds1 dh's old camera, which he loves and he takes surprisingly good pictures!

The pictures aren't very good quality, but it is very robust (ours has been thoroughly tested . Important for dd (3.2), as is the binocular viewfinder. Ds (5.7) prefers it to our camera too.

I like giving them a camera - good to get a child's eye view of things.

I did contemplate just getting him a cheap digital camera, but having looked on comet's site, the cheapest one, although only £75, had 8 mega piccels and movie capability ... and a load of other things about which I know nothing, and IMO that was just waaay more features than a 4 year old needs.

We looked at this for DD last Christmas. However it doesn't say what the pixel amount, etc. is and we found that although easy to operate the display at the back was very small and not clear. It was £60 at the time and would have needed an additional memory card to hold more pictures when we went away.

In the end we bought DD a proper digital camera. It was a Canon Powershot, half price reduced to £80. As we already had a spare 1meg memory card that fit it, it worked out around the same price in the end. And the Canon photos do seem to be much better quality/