Hello Kitty Digital Camera - 3MP

by Hello Kitty

Product Details

• ASIN: B000FZDIF4
• Item model number: KT7009
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,541 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 20, 2006

Product Description

CL) HELLO KITTY 3MP DIGITAL CAMERA

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too good to be true..., December 28, 2006

By 

B. Estes (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hello Kitty Digital Camera - 3MP (Electronics)

We bought this camera for our daughter for Christmas thinking it would be perfect for her. She loves to take pictures with our Nikon Coolpix camera, and really does a great job with it, so we thought it was time for her own. 3 mpixels, pink, USB charger, Hello Kitty software... what could be better for our budding female photographer, right? She was ecstatic to start using it after she opened it, and she did. Picture quality was horrible. The flash washed out images... color reproduction was horrendous... everything was out of focus. The user interface also is not at all intuitive, and the manual is not the best. I pick up digital cameras all the time, and usually can easily navigate to the features I want -- not with this one. The picture that was just taken does not even appear on the LCD screen -- you have to go through a series of menus to even look at it. My daughter could do this just fine, but it's not ideal for seeing if you got the picture or not. And the worst part was that the camera kept locking up on her requiring a reset -- about every 30 minutes or so. Needless to say, this camera went back to the store where we bought it. It's a cute little camera, but don't expect any quality whatsoever if you choose to buy it.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Best specs, less than impressive performance, January 1, 2007

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Ruach Echad "Rob R" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hello Kitty Digital Camera - 3MP (Electronics)

I purchased this unit for my daughter who loves taking pictures, and actually frames them nicely with my own camera. Because all the other "kids cameras" have *aweful* specs. (e.g. 640x480) and even worse reviews (image quality, battery life, etc), this one seemed like the best of the bunch -- a "real camera" she could grow into (not just a toy).

Despite the wonderful specs, I agree with the last reviewer for the most part.

The good:
- Flash
- Self-focusing
- Pretty style and strap
- Built-in rechargable battery last a long time!
- "real camera" functions including a self-timer, white balance and more
- Expandable -- has an SD card
- Decent MegaPix (3 MP)
- Big 2" color display

The bad:
- Even in brigh indoor lighting, subjects are dark and difficult to
site in regular-to-bright indoor lighting.
- Flash does seem to wash images
- Flash defaults to *off* every time the camera is turned on, instead
of remembering the last setting
- Pix generally look blurry, but this could be due to poor handling
of low light
- The GUI to preview and the take pix is very poor, although my 4 YO
daughter did figure it out very quickly
- The "OK" (shutter) button is difficult to press, which causes extra
camera shake when taking pictures.

The fixable:
- take pix in high light conditions to avoid disappointment
- Poor color "bluish hugh" in "auto" setting is poor, but setting it
to "sunlight" setting fixes up most color issues of this type

Sad indeed -- there just may not *be* any good camera choices for young and talented children photographers at this time... just the toy ones that make believe they're usable, but which will fall short of kids' expectations when they see blurry unprintable images.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good value camera, January 3, 2007

By 

Kim "Kim" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hello Kitty Digital Camera - 3MP (Electronics)

My daughter really wanted the "hello kitty camera" for Christmas, (unlike the cheaper one this one can at least hold plenty of pics via a memory card). But if it is fun photography they really want to do, they will get more enjoyment from a normal digital camera.

This camera has some very poor features for the price. 1) The flash always defaults to "off"; you have to reset it every time you turn the camera on if you want automatic flash. 2)The menu is not intuitive. My son got a Kodak for $30 less, and both children found the Kodak much easier to use. 3) The software is not intuitive; they still have to do a regular file import to modify a picture, rather then the Hello Kitty software doing a direct picture or camera import. 4)The only way to charge the battery is a USB cable, it doesn't take shelf batteries. 5)Very poor lens; any other 3-4 megapixel camera takes much better pictures.

The Hello Kitty software is fun, but I think you could find some enjoyable kids scrapbooking software to put with a regular camera and have a much better package.