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4.0 stars
"An excellent toy"
Pros: Durable; easy to use; price
Cons: Poor choice for battery, poor location of battery and memory card
Summary: I have a two year old daughter that was always trying to take pictures with my wife's Evolt E-500. She just loves to look through the view screen and take pictures, but we were very wary of her doing so alone for fear she would break the camera. When I saw this advertised on TV, I knew what she would be getting for Christmas.
When we took it out of the box, it wasn't very easy to get the batteries in it. The phillips screws were very very tiny. I had to use an eyeglasses screwdriver to get them out. The fact that it uses a watch-type battery as well as double As was disappointing. Fisher Price could pony up a rechargeable lithium battery for very little cost.
We misplaced the 32MB card initially, but my daughter was able to take over 90 photos on the camera's internal memory. They were grainy photos, about as good as any VGA camera phone. My daughter was able to take the pictures without me showing her what to do, and hitting the arrow buttons displays the photos she took on the back viewscreen.
The only other minor problem was they made the noisiest button be the delete button. It chimes when she hits it. This is too attractive for a two year old. She ends up deleting half the pictures she takes just for the fun of hearing that noise.
The best feature of this toy: durable as a tonka truck. My daughter has walked on it and even jumped on it. There isn't a scuff mark on it and it still takes pictures just fine; I would hate to see what would happen to the Evolt with her doing that.
The viewmaster double-sighting is great for kids. The only thing that they could ahve changed is the placement of the snapshot button. Having it at the very top of the hand hold is tough for a two year old to reach while trying to hold the camera level enough to take a good picture. About 2 out of 3 times, my daughter gets shots of of feet or cuts off her subjects' heads.
All in all, it's a good first toy for a budding shutter bug.
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The Camera that came with my 'Free' with 2 yr agreement Cell Phone works about 10 times better than this piece of junk.
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Fisher-Price Kid Tough Digital Camera (blue):
$44.99
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