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Warning: This product contains small parts which are for adult assembly only.
Warning: This product contains small parts which are for adult assembly only.
Product Description
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Let your children show you the world through their eyes with the Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera. This innovative toy is a real digital camera designed to be sturdy enough and simple enough for kids as young as three years of age to use. This digital camera is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Children's Technology Review's 2006 Editor's Choice, and the Parents Magazine 2006 Best Toys of the Year.
Designed for Little Hands
The Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera provides a great outlet for your children's creativity and offers them a fun, simple introduction to both photography and digital technology. Featuring the trademark Fisher Price "kid-tough" construction, this fully functional digital camera is sturdy enough and safe enough for small children. It's also designed to make picture-taking as easy as possible for little ones, with big, easy-to-use control buttons and a two-eye view finder. Dual handgrips make a steady shot easier for little hands to manage. The camera also has a 1.6-inch color LCD display, just like a grown-up's camera, where pictures can be viewed instantly. Your children can take pictures at the park or zoo, or, thanks to the automatic flash, their next party.
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 Fisher Price's kid-tough construction makes this digital camera sturdy. View larger. |
The Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera provides a great outlet for your children's creativity and offers them a fun, simple introduction to both photography and digital technology. Featuring the trademark Fisher Price "kid-tough" construction, this fully functional digital camera is sturdy enough and safe enough for small children. It's also designed to make picture-taking as easy as possible for little ones, with big, easy-to-use control buttons and a two-eye view finder. Dual handgrips make a steady shot easier for little hands to manage. The camera also has a 1.6-inch color LCD display, just like a grown-up's camera, where pictures can be viewed instantly. Your children can take pictures at the park or zoo, or, thanks to the automatic flash, their next party.
Works with your Home Computer
The camera has 8 megabytes of memory, which can store up to 60 pictures. You can purchase larger memory cards to increase the memory. Once your child fills up the memory card, simply plug the camera into your computer and download the pictures for printing or for using in photo art programs. The camera includes 1.3 interpolated megapixels or 640-by-480 resolution for 4-by-6-inch prints. It is compatible with Macintosh and with Windows 2000 or later. The camera requires four AA batteries; it comes with one lithium CR2032 battery.
What's in the Box
Blue camera, USB cord, lithium CR2032 battery, and wrist strap.
Product Description
Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera - Blue comes with built-in auto flash, wrist strap, and camera compatible with Windows 2000/ME/XP/VISTA and Macintosh 1.3 interpolated Mega Pixels or 640 x 480 resolution for 4" x 6" prints - WAS just 640 x 480 resolution, 8 MB built-in memory stores up to 60 pictures, which depends on resolution and USB cord for computer connection SD memory card slot for increased storage capacity, SD sold separately.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
106 of 108 people found the following review helpful
By M. Bruce
Durability:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
We bought this without expecting too much (after having problems with a cheaper camera), and this is a good camera for young children 3+
What's good?
- physical Design makes it easy to look through and hold, robust construction,
- Simple contols, kids easily learned the User Interface and how to take photos. Has simple sounds as well that accompony power on/off, shutter
- the one we bought took a standard 128MB SD card which provides heaps of storage for photos of this size
- no PC drivers required - mounts as a standard USB storage device
Needs improvement:
- picture quality - its OK, but very basic. Sort of 1MP phone quality.
- rear display - fairly poor, but workable.
- Some troubles getting it detected by WinXP on our notebook, but with repititon it worked
Overall:
- Great learning toy for the kids to figure out what photography is. They copy what adults do, and this is a great way to learn. They have learnt if you take lots of pictures, you have to sort through them and delete the cruddy ones. How to compose a photo. And they learn about composing photos and what photos look like if you just press the shutter button at any time.
The picture quality is only part of it - it is the overall experience that matters. The simple User Interface and durable design mean that this is a toy that kids should get some life out of. Reccomended (though a higher picture quality version would be nice!).
Note: - there is a high quality mode which needs to be turned on. Press both arrow keys and press the shutter button which turns on a cross hatched pattern symbol in the lower left of the display. Pictures instead of being 640 x 480 are 1280 x 960. I don't know whether this is a higher quality or just interpolated, but it looks worthwhile having.
What's good?
- physical Design makes it easy to look through and hold, robust construction,
- Simple contols, kids easily learned the User Interface and how to take photos. Has simple sounds as well that accompony power on/off, shutter
- the one we bought took a standard 128MB SD card which provides heaps of storage for photos of this size
- no PC drivers required - mounts as a standard USB storage device
Needs improvement:
- picture quality - its OK, but very basic. Sort of 1MP phone quality.
- rear display - fairly poor, but workable.
- Some troubles getting it detected by WinXP on our notebook, but with repititon it worked
Overall:
- Great learning toy for the kids to figure out what photography is. They copy what adults do, and this is a great way to learn. They have learnt if you take lots of pictures, you have to sort through them and delete the cruddy ones. How to compose a photo. And they learn about composing photos and what photos look like if you just press the shutter button at any time.
The picture quality is only part of it - it is the overall experience that matters. The simple User Interface and durable design mean that this is a toy that kids should get some life out of. Reccomended (though a higher picture quality version would be nice!).
Note: - there is a high quality mode which needs to be turned on. Press both arrow keys and press the shutter button which turns on a cross hatched pattern symbol in the lower left of the display. Pictures instead of being 640 x 480 are 1280 x 960. I don't know whether this is a higher quality or just interpolated, but it looks worthwhile having.
86 of 88 people found the following review helpful
By L. Moskowitz
Amazon Verified Purchase
Durability:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
After spending a lot of time researching digital cameras for little kids, we decided on the Kid Tough camera. The downside to buying a camera rugged enough for a young child is that the resolutions are terrible. At least the KT camera rates at 1 megapixel, unlike several others that have .3 megapixels which is borderline pointless. Because of the lower resolutions, the pictures are comparable to cell photo photos, but that's been perfectly peachy for us so far.
There is no question that the camera is rugged - it has already been dropped about 20 times and still works like new. Hooking it up to my Mac or my husband's PC has been very easy (although be aware the creativity software is PC only).
Here are the negatives:
1. The flash is way too bright, and it overexposed almost every photo. We fixed this by taking a small square of a paper towel and placing it over the flash with a piece of clear packing tape. It works beautifullly as a diffuser.
2. The delete button is too easy for little kids to hit. In future versions, FP should make it very difficult for little kids to delete pictures. Let mom and dad do the deleting.
3. Would it kill any of these manufacturers to make software Mac compatible?
All in all, I would definitely recommend the camera to any parent looking for a rugged camera for their toddler/young elementary aged kids.
There is no question that the camera is rugged - it has already been dropped about 20 times and still works like new. Hooking it up to my Mac or my husband's PC has been very easy (although be aware the creativity software is PC only).
Here are the negatives:
1. The flash is way too bright, and it overexposed almost every photo. We fixed this by taking a small square of a paper towel and placing it over the flash with a piece of clear packing tape. It works beautifullly as a diffuser.
2. The delete button is too easy for little kids to hit. In future versions, FP should make it very difficult for little kids to delete pictures. Let mom and dad do the deleting.
3. Would it kill any of these manufacturers to make software Mac compatible?
All in all, I would definitely recommend the camera to any parent looking for a rugged camera for their toddler/young elementary aged kids.
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
Durability:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
We bought this camera for our son's 3rd birthday. He had an old camera of ours that didn't work so he was excited to have his own, especially since it worked. It's a very cool and simple to use camera. Within about 5 minutes of opening it and looking at it with dad, he understood what the buttons did and was clicking away taking pictures. It's super easy to upload the pictures onto our computer and the picture quality is much better once loaded onto the computer.
Another cool thing (that I didn't notice when I bought it) is the binocular eye piece. I think it would have been hard for him if it wasn't.
This is a great camera - it's very cool to see what he takes pictures of and especially those everyday things that you can now see from a 3-year-old's perspective. If you have a kid who is even a little interested in pictures and photography I think this is a must have!!
Another cool thing (that I didn't notice when I bought it) is the binocular eye piece. I think it would have been hard for him if it wasn't.
This is a great camera - it's very cool to see what he takes pictures of and especially those everyday things that you can now see from a 3-year-old's perspective. If you have a kid who is even a little interested in pictures and photography I think this is a must have!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
eh
is not exactly what i thuogh it will be but at least work even the I'm not that happy with it
Published 4 hours ago by yara medina
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worked great!
My niece and nephew loved this as a gift, and honestly some of the funniest pictures I've seen come from a camera.
Published 1 month ago by Ronindoc
5.0 out of 5 stars
toy camera
This Is a great toy. Got it quickly and just as described Thanks! My son loves this camera. He took pictures all day Christmas!
Published 17 months ago by kimber_froggy
2.0 out of 5 stars
A terrible camera in a great, tough body
I'm an amateur photographer with a camera frequently around my neck. My son has had toy cameras for ages so he could walk around taking pictures just like mommy. Read more
Published on November 30, 2010 by Lynda Giddens
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must Have!
I bought this camera for my three little two year old nephews. They all love it and have taken many photos with them already! It's fun to see their photos. Read more
Published on January 25, 2010 by Pro Aunt
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good start
This camera is well made with an auto shut off which is key for this age group. It is easy to use but the photo quality is poor which was disappointing. Read more
Published on November 8, 2009 by Amy Robbins Wilson
2.0 out of 5 stars
sound broke with in a few months
This was a Christmas present for my 4 year old daughter. She loved it at first, but after a couple of months of use the sound quit working. Read more
Published on December 12, 2008 by H. hamel
1.0 out of 5 stars
not worth it
I wish this had been better but I don't think it is worth the money. The large size makes it difficult for little hands to manage, the delete button is annoying, the picture... Read more
Published on November 14, 2008 by MJ
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera - Blue
My son received this last year. He still uses it today. Well worth the money. Comes with a USB cord and transferring pix couldn't be easier. Read more
Published on November 10, 2008 by Jennifer C. Shelton
2.0 out of 5 stars
Total crud
This camera takes terrible pictures. Terrible. The delete key shouldn't make a fun noise because my kid likes to hit it to hear the sound.
Published on September 30, 2008 by A. Toomey
